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automate Definition

auto·mate (ôtə māt′)

transitive verb -·mat′ed, -·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

automate Usage Examples

Object

  • reasoning: Leading the research at Leeds is Professor of Automated Reasoning, Tony Cohn.
  • task: The main use of computers however, has merely been to automate office tasks.
  • workflow: The first step to automating internal workflow is to map out your business process.
  • process: At some point I want to automate the feedback process to Apple.
  • banker: BACS payment BACS stands for Bankers Automated Clearing System which is a system for sending money electronically between banks.
  • backup: Users with autoloaders or tape libraries can now fully automate backups by creating any number of media pools using barcoded tapes.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • such: Through automation we can deliver results in real-time to the control room and automate routine tasks such as cleaning and background checks.

Adjective complement

  • most: It automates most of the creation of a bootable copy of Windows on a recordable CD or DVD.
  • more: The User Agent needs to automate more of what needs to be done to make a PDF more accessible.

Modifying Another Word

  • fully: Ease of use Fully automated for ease of use.
  • partially: A high proportion of email work can be wholly or partially automated.
  • completely: Facilities are now completely automated at the lighthouse on Gull Island.
  • highly: The systems are highly automated, with total control of the environment.
  • totally: From the simple but necessary Chuck Jaw to the totally automated Fixture for flexible manufacturing cells.
  • entirely: The autonomous agent enables this extremely time consuming process to be entirely automated.

Modifies a noun

  • task: Custom script recording Automate repetitive tasks with custom scripts.

Used with why or when

  • what: You can only automate what you do ( or would do ).
  • where: We should automate only where we can, out of our inner resources, re- enliven.

Present participle complement

  • scan: Eye to the future Automated scanning of the retina could help doctors spot the danger signs of diabetes and a host of other orders.

Preposition: of

  • process: Smart split-screen technology permits multiple views of the pagination session whilst sophisticated flow algorithms automate much of the layout process.
automate Quotes

Innovate, automateöor evaporate!

—Merrifield, D(udley) Bruce