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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
automate
verb
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▪ Data is easily digitised and automated, the method is not imaging and not cheap.
▪ In effect, a personalized automated trading system can be created without having to go to any financial institution.
▪ It is interesting to contemplate the effects this widespread automated dealing would have on the stock market.
▪ Other monitoring devices may also be connected and data acquisition is fully automated.
▪ The order goes to an automated brokerage service, which searches exchanges to find the best price.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
automate

automate \automate\ v. 1. make automatic; to change [a process] so that it is mostly automatic; to substitute machinery for human labor in an activity.

Syn: automatize.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
automate

"to convert to automatic operation," 1954, back-formation from automated (q.v.). Ancient Greek verb automatizein meant "to act of oneself, to act unadvisedly." Related: Automating.

Wiktionary
automate

vb. To replace or enhance human labor with machines.

WordNet
automate

v. make automatic or control or operate automatically; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot" [syn: automatize, automatise]

Wikipedia
Automate (album)

Automate is the second studio album by the electronic band Forma Tadre. It was released in 1998 on Metropolis Records. This album is quite different from the group's previous record, Navigator, as it has a more ambient feel.

Automate (genus)

Automate is a genus of pistol shrimp of the family Alpheidae, containing the following species:

  • Automate anacanthopus de Man, 1910
  • Automate branchialis Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1958
  • Automate dolichognatha de Man, 1888
  • Automate evermanni Rathbun, 1901
  • Automate hayashii Anker & Komai, 2004
  • Automate rectifrons Chace, 1972
  • Automate rugosa Coutière, 1902
  • Automate salomoni Coutière, 1908
  • Automate talismani Coutière, 1902

Usage examples of "automate".

Once upon a time, his network intelligence cobbers had done a study on automated snooping.

The tunnel went directly through Diamond One to the arsenal vault, and it had never been automated with localizers or cut with cross tunnels.

And five percent were actually all that were needed to produce an abundance of goods and supply the services of this automated, computerized society.

A modern, automated factory is possible only because these tools were handed down to us over the centuries.

Not as imposing as the hundred-floor apartment buildings of the big cities, yet large enough to contain all the amenitiesan ultra-market, automated kitchens, parking areas, theatres, auditoriums, sports arenas.

His was an era of automated ultra-markets, through which credit could purchase anything from a safety pin to a yacht.

The automated steel gate swung open and the little vehicle slithered through.

Everything he consumes has been produced by the most advanced automated equipment.

His medical care is computerized and automated, as is the pitiful education he wants.

Horace Hampton looked up at the lanky, stoop-shouldered man who hovered over his table in the automated bar, grinning down at him.

Navy is in your hands, but you must take command of their automated submerged platform, the Snare.

In the other services, the standard operating procedure with an automated combat node that is not responding to orders is to send the unit a self-destruct signal.

Navy came up with the term, an acronym for Submarine Naval Automated Robotic Combat system.

No human-directed administrator can get in, only automated and programmed ones.

When the next quantum jump comes, from automated self-servicing machinery that can produce all the goods we want with hardly any human intervention, what happens to the Protestant Ethic?