automatize en · VERB
Etymology
From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.
Meanings
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To make or become automatic.
Student responses are gradually automatized through repetition.
[…] automatize the most basic maths facts and then (ultimately) to automatize a fair proportion of the entire repertoire of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division maths facts.
2003, Dorian Yeo, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Mathematics, Wiley-Blackwell:
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(transitive) To cause to be automated; to automate.
Now thinking is required to build truly automatic factories. Only a war, he [Norbert Wiener] believes, could automatize industry overnight.
1955 June 14, “Science and Industry”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2025:We need to automatize our production facility.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| automatise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| automatized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| automatized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| automatizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| automatizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
automat · automation · automate · automaton