Automate definition
To control or operate by automation.
verb
To make use of or be converted to automation.
A food service that decided to automate for greater efficiency.
verb
To modernize, improve, etc. (a system, process, facility, etc.) by means of automation.
To automate a company's payroll system, to automate a factory.
verb
To turn a set of manual steps into an electronic operation that runs on its own. It may also refer to removing certain human interactions with the software in an existing information system to make it operate from beginning to end without intervention. See automation.
To convert to automatic operation.
Automate a factory.
verb
Origin of automate
- Back-formation from automation
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition