Meanings
present singular third person automatizes · participle present automatizing · participle past automatized · past automatized · alternative automatise
- To make or become automatic.
Student responses are gradually automatized through repetition.
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[…] 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 - transitiveTo cause to be automated; to automate.
We need to automatize our production facility.
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Now thinking is required to build truly automatic factories. Only a war, he [Norbert Wiener] believes, could automatize industry overnight.
1955 June 28, “Science and Industry”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
verbmake automatic or control or operate automatically
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchautomatiser
- Englishautomatize
From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.
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