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machine-driven

machine-driven

1 4.2
A thing that uses machines or computers instead of people to do work
  • adjective
  • Specialized
translation icon : impulsado por máquina
  • With machine-driven technology, companies can automate processes that used to require manual labor.

Examples

  • The factory’s production line is fully machine-driven, allowing for quick and consistent output.

  • So you want to have an automatic machine driven by gas and when you do these things.

  • And you could, you could have like a, you know, this, this, this AI driven machine driven network that basically can drive all these cars all over the place.

  • In modern manufacturing, productivity is limited by the speed of a machine-driven process.

    Blog text (15)
  • I hope in 2013 we are rising above analytics to predictive and machine-driven big data analytics.

    Blog text (25)
  • Thinking for its own sake, non-instrumental, as opposed to transitive thinking, the kind that would depend on a machine-driven harvesting of facts toward some specified end.

    Academic text (2010)
  • While there is talk of flotation or other machine-driven devices for separating useful trash components automatically, the only devices so far developed are simple magnetic pulleys for separating steel cans from aluminum cans.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In manufacturing, many tasks are now completed using machine-driven systems that enhance efficiency.

Synonyms

automated
vsmachine-driven
74 4.0

Machines or computers run a system instead of people

focuses more on being driven by systems rather than simply machine use
mechanical
vsmachine-driven
39 3.9

Moving or acting like a machine without feeling

is about actual system operation rather than just resembling machine behaviour
mechanized
vsmachine-driven
  • Specialized
5 4.2

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

highlights system control rather than only replacing manual effort
machine-controlled
vsmachine-driven
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Machines run it with little or no human help

emphasizes being driven by automated systems rather than occasional human control
machinelike
vsmachine-driven
1 6.7

Acting in a very exact, automatic way without showing feeling

refers to being operated by systems rather than describing behaviour or tone

Antonyms

101 3.8

Done by hand rather than by a machine

How Automated

machine-driven
  • Specialized
1 4.2
automated
74 4.0

Surface Forms

machine-driven positive

Morphology

machine-driven = machine + driven (transparent) = machine + drive + en

The word 'machine-driven' is a clear compound of 'machine' and 'driven', indicating operation by a machine.

Etymology

The word machine-driven puts together machine, meaning 'a tool or engine', and driven, from drive like when you drive a car, so it gives the picture of something moved or controlled by a machine. So, a machine-driven process is one that is 'pushed or controlled by a machine' and often runs automatically without people doing the work.