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to automatize

to automatize

7.2
To make something work without people using machines or computers
  • verb
  • /ˈɔːtəməˌtaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : automatizar
  • The software is designed to automatize repetitive tasks, allowing employees to focus on more creative work.
  • automatized naming
  • rapid automatized
  • become automatized

A third way of getting around these sorts of problems involves automatizing the behaviour that you wish to encourage.

Examples

  • Once processing becomes automatized, experts can perform without drawing down attentional resources.

    Academic text (2013)

  • According to this view, learners who direct attention to their bodies begin to consciously control movements that have long ago become automatized and require little conscious effort.

    Academic text (2011)

  • A third way of getting around these sorts of problems involves automatizing the behaviour that you wish to encourage.

    YaleCourses

  • Notably, with ongoing reading development, strategies are more and more automatized and eventually become skills.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Such observation often indicates that the child has not automatized letter formation.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The Author Recognition Test supports this last explanation, which suggests that good readers read more print and therefore become more practiced or automatized.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Attending to body movements that have become highly automatized over a lifetime of experience can disrupt the performance of well-practiced skills.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Ackerman (1988) suggested that WM level may be important in the early phases of skill acquisition but becomes less critical as the implementation of strategies is automatized over time.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Screening and pretest measures assessed phonological awareness, letter-name knowledge, rapid automatized naming, and receptive vocabulary.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The Copy Task of the University of Washington CAWS is recommended to assess handwriting fluency (i.e., the degree to which handwriting production is automatized).

    Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

to automate
vsto automatize
52 4.0

Make a process or job run by machines such as computers instead of people

is identical in meaning and expresses the same machine or computer use
to computerize
vsto automatize
  • US
45 4.3

To use computers to run a system and store its information

is broader, applying to machine or computer use not limited to computers
to mechanize
vsto automatize
3 5.6

Use machines to do work people used to do by hand

is broader, covering machine or computer solutions not only physical replacements
to preprogram
vsto automatize
1 4.8

To set a device so it will work by itself later

is about making things run without people, not only by prior setup
to robotize
vsto automatize
  • Specialized
7.2

Change a process so machines do the work instead of people

covers machine or computer control broadly rather than control by specific machines

How Automatic

to automatize
  • Specialized
7.2
to mechanize
3 5.6
to computerize
  • US
45 4.3
to operate
506 2.8

Surface Forms

automatize infinitive
automatized past
automatized past participle
automatizing present participle
automatizes third person singular

Morphology

automatize = automatic (transparent) = automatic + ize

Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'automatic', yielding the straightforward meaning 'make automatic'.

Etymology

The word automatize comes from the root auto- meaning 'self' and is the same idea you see in automatic, which means 'self-working'. So, to automatize something is to make it work 'by itself', often using machines or computers instead of people.