BOT
\bˈɒt], \bˈɒt], \b_ˈɒ_t]\
Definitions of BOT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1985 - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By James Champlin Fernald
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(From "robot") Any typeof autonomous software that operates as an agent for auser or a program or simulates a human activity. On theInternet, the most popular bots are programs (calledspiders or crawlers) used for searching. They access websites, retrieve documents and follow all the hypertextlinks in them; then they generate catalogs that are accessedby search engines.A chatbot converses with humans (or other bots). Ashopbot searches the Web to find the best price for aproduct. Other bots (such as OpenSesame) observe a user'spatterns in navigating a website and customises the site forthat user.Knowbots collect specific information from websites.
By Denis Howe
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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