cellular automaton

Noun



 * 1)  An automaton consisting of cells arranged in a regular grid, in one or more dimensions. Each application of an associated rule creates a new generation, where the cells have a new configuration of values.

Synonyms

 * CA

Derived terms

 * block cellular automaton
 * elementary cellular automaton
 * Life-like cellular automaton
 * partitioning cellular automaton

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 元胞自动机
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Russian: кле́точный автома́т
 * Serbo-Croatian: celularni automat, stanični automat