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/ˈkæpɪk/
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NOUN
- Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938)
How To Use Capek In A Sentence
- The term robot derives from the Czech word robit, meaning "work," and came into wide use in 1923 when Karl Capek wrote a play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), in which mechanical beings did all the work for man. Modern Mechanix
