automation
Automation means making something automatic, or mechanized. If there's smoke in your house and your smoke detector is set up to "call" the fire department, that's an example of automation.
Car companies were the first manufacturers to use assembly lines, where the steps of building a car were divided among workers––and when those jobs started to be done more often by machines then by people, an executive at Ford coined the term automation to describe what was happening.
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the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware“automation replaces human workers by machines”synonyms: mechanisation, mechanization
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equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation“this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment”type of:equipmentan instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
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the condition of being automatically operated or controlled
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Vocabulary lists containing automation
Learn these list of words that contain the Greek root auto, meaning "self."
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