automate
verb
Examples of automate in a Sentence
Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 5 Apr. 2024
Mast is also working to automate seedling formation and increase every sprout’s chance of success.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
The home is fully automated with the latest technology and additionally offers an elevator, a double garage, and plenty of additional parking.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2024
Robot lawn mowers take over the task for you, functioning much like a robot vacuum to automate your grass-trimming experience.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2024
And for many services, citizens need not even apply, as certain entitlements are automated.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024
Offer an incentive: Ask employees to come up with creative ways to automate or augment existing processes and deliverables with AI–and offer a prize to the most impactful one.
—Colette Stallbaumer, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
These tools excel in automating routine tasks, elevating customer service quality, and capturing consumer preferences with remarkable accuracy.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
Anything repetitive or administrative should be automated or delegated to someone else.
—Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
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Word History
back-formation from automation
Note: The formation of automation from automatic entry 1 (or automaton) is idiosyncratic. The -at- of automatic is blended with the suffix -ation, resulting in a word that is no longer divisible into base and suffix. The element -at- mimics, as it were, the -at- of -ate entry 4 and -ation, though in origin it has no relation to it. Another approach to this curious derivation might be to take it as a blend of automatic and operation, though there is no evidence that the coiner had this in mind. A more regular way to derive a verb from automatic would be automatize, and in fact such a word is attested (see automatize, but with a different sense), along with a corresponding noun automatization. In a discussion on automation with the editors of the Atlantic Monthly the mathematician Norbert wiener was said to take "a firm stand on nomenclature": "'Automation,' he says, is barbarous; let it be 'automatization' or nothing" ("Science and Industry," Atlantic Monthly, vol. 195, no. 6 [June, 1955], p. 14). See also the note at automation.
1952, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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“Automate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/automate. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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