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automate definition

☆ auto·mate (ôt′ə māt′)

transitive verb automated -·mat′ed, automating -·mat′·ing

  1. to convert (a factory, process, etc.) to automation
  2. to use techniques of automation in teaching is being automated

Etymology: back-form. < automation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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