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automatize en · VERB

Etymology

From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.

Meanings

  1. 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:
  2. (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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
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

automatization

Relateds

automat · automation · automate · automaton