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automatize

American  
[aw-tom-uh-tahyz] / ɔˈtɒm əˌtaɪz /
especially British, automatise

verb (used with object)

automatized, automatizing
  1. to make automatic.

  2. automate.


automatize British  
/ ɔːˈtɒməˌtaɪz /

verb

  1. to make (a process, etc) automatic or (of a process, etc) to be made automatic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of automatize

First recorded in 1830–40; automat(ic) + -ize

Example Sentences

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"It's difficult to automatize the making of handbags, so a lot of it is manual," Cassegrain says.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2015

Through their entanglements with algorithms, global music metadata arrangements, and automatized web-scrapers, streamed music files get wrapped up in the whirlpools of data traffic that surround digital streams.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2019

Music metadata, such as genre specifications, fundamentally influence how streamed music moves and is displayed, not least because metadata underlie music recommendation algorithms and other automatized ways of bundling musical pieces together.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2019

The intercom repeated in English, “Terminal 1, a child in lost-and-found,” while the boy hustled along, incongruous: a body automatized with purpose, as though if you got close enough you would hear him ticking.

From The New Yorker Jun. 7, 2010

But this week, when Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the operations of the first completely automatized milling machine, the idea no longer seemed quite so farfetched.

From Time Magazine Archive

Certain things must be looked for, certain habits must be formed, certain movements must be automatized.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

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