automate meaning

Verb: automate  'otu`meyt

1. Make automatic or control or operate automatically
   "automate the movement of the robot"
   - automatize, automatise [Brit]

Derived forms: automating, automates, automated

See also: automation

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Automate

[Business]
verb [+ obj] (usually be automated)

to use machines and computers instead of people to do a job or task:

The entire manufacturing process has been automated.

The factory is now fully automated.

an automated production line

SYN MECHANIZE

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1. many plants have begun to automate.
2. it is simple conceptually and easy to automate.
3. the dryers can be automated.
4. the production of this bibliography is totally automated.
5. the cyanide treatment segment was continuous, but not automated.