automate
See also: aŭtomate
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from automation
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔː.tə.meɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɔ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.təˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɑ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈoː.tə.mæɪt/, [ˈoː.ɾə.mæɪt]
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Verb
editautomate (third-person singular simple present automates, present participle automating, simple past and past participle automated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
- Many offices still need to automate.
- We saved time and money by automating the process.
- 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 83:
- In the early '60's a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
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editTranslations
editto replace or enhance human labor with machines
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French
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editautomate m (plural automates)
- automaton
- 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Des monceaux de messages racistes, antisémites, misogynes ou homophobes s’étalent en permanence sur les réseaux sociaux, générés par des individus, mais aussi par des automates, soufflant sur les braises et semant le désordre à grande échelle.
- Mountains of racist, antisemitic, misogynistic and homophobic messages are permanently visible on social media, generated by people, but also by bots, fanning the flames and causing chaos on a vast scale.
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “automate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editautomate
Noun
editautomate
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