automated

UK/ˈɔːtəmeɪtɪd/US/ˈɔ.təmeɪtɪd/

adjectiveB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,988 of 15,258leans written

Automated means run by self-acting machinery under its own controls, with no person needed to work it. Set it up, and it runs.

The word covers factory lines, telephone systems, tills and trading, and the difference from mechanised matters, since a mechanised process uses machines with people operating them and an automated one does not need the people. That distinction is the whole argument about jobs. The noun automation names the process, and an automated response is the message nobody wanted.

Definitions of automated

1adjectiveautomatedOperated automatically by machinery without human control.B1+
“The whole warehouse is automated.”

Where it comes from

From automate + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 28 of A Man Called Ove.

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automated in the wild

A people mover or automated people mover (APM) is a type of small-scale automated guideway transit system.
People mover
One was Skybus, an automated mass transit system prototyped by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation beginning in 1964.
People mover
An automated line can be cheaper to run than a conventional line, due to the shorter trains and stations.
Automated guideway transit
AGT covers a wide variety of systems, from limited people mover systems commonly found at airports, to more complex automated train systems like the Vancouver SkyTrain.
Automated guideway transit
Fully automated trains for mainline railways are an area of research.
Automatic train operation

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

automate

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