automatize
verbEtymology From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.
1
To make or become automatic.
- Student responses are gradually automatized through repetition.
- […] 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:
2
To cause to be automated; to automate.
- We need to automatize our production facility.
- Now thinking is required to build truly automatic factories. Only a war, he [Norbert Wiener] believes, could automatize industry overnight.1955 June 23, “Science and Industry”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2025:
- Derived terms
- automatization
- Related terms
- automat, automate, automation, automaton