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automated

automated

74 4.0
Machines or computers run a system instead of people
  • adjective
  • /ˈɔːtəˌmeɪtɪd/
translation icon : automatizado
  • The factory has implemented an automated assembly line that greatly increases production efficiency.
  • an automated system
  • an automated teller machine
  • manual and automated

Well, not the first, but the first automated market making one so.

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Examples

  • And, since the whole operation was, of course, automated, didn't have much else to do.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And essentially how that works in the practice is that there is an automated forecasting process.

  • Try and plan that into your automated system.

  • What we do have is automated control of things.

  • So those basic things are actually automated with software already.

  • If you prefer an automated response, press 1 now.

  • It's an automated bottling plant.

  • The snow sensor is typically mounted on automated weather stations designed to take such readings.

    Academic text (1994)
  • To get around this, Boeing uses automated tape laying to produce massive aircraft sections.

  • Since we have developed a fully automated vehicle, all we seek from the occupants of the capsule is data.

Synonyms

automatic
vsautomated
195 3.4

Works by itself with little or no human control

is specifically about being run by machines or computers rather than people
robotic
vsautomated
58 4.6

Made like a machine that works by itself

refers more clearly to actual operation by machines or computers than resemblance
mechanized
vsautomated
  • Specialized
5 4.2

Machines do the work instead of people, for example in factories or farms

is about operation by machines or computers rather than people in general
machine-driven
vsautomated
  • Specialized
1 4.2

A thing that uses machines or computers instead of people to do work

is broader, covering operation by computers as well as machines
machine-controlled
vsautomated
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Machines run it with little or no human help

is the general term for functioning by machines or computers instead of people
cybernated
vsautomated
  • Specialized
1 7.4

A place where most work is done by computers

is broader, covering operation by any machines as well as computers
self-acting
vsautomated
  • Specialized
6.7

A machine that works automatically without people needing to control it

focuses on operation by machines or computers rather than by people

Antonyms

101 3.8

Done by hand rather than by a machine

Compounds

A machine outside banks that gives cash and does simple bank tasks with a card

A machine that gives you cash from your bank account when you use a bank card and secret number

6.7

A computer program that checks and removes posts that break the rules

A computer system that gives brokers live price quotes for stocks traded outside major exchanges

How Automated

self-acting
  • Specialized
6.7
automated
74 4.0
manual
101 3.8

Surface Forms

automated positive

Morphology

automated = automate (transparent) = automate + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'automate', so learners who know 'automate' can infer 'automated'.

Etymology

Automated comes from the Greek prefix auto- meaning 'self', the same part you see in automatic and automobile. So an automated machine is one that works by itself, not by people.