automation

automation

See also: automâtion

English

Etymology

automatic +‎ -ion or automaton +‎ -ion; coined by a Ford Executive Vice President, Delmar S. Harder, in the 1940s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔːtəˈmeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

automation (countable and uncountable, plural automations)

1. The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.

   Synonym: automatization

   • 2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     The presidential campaign has been more focused on Bain Capital and an “apology tour” than on the challenges created by globalization and automation.

Derived terms

• automate (back-formation)
• automation bias
• automation complacency
• fauxtomation
• home automation
• office automation

 

Related terms

• automat
• automatic
• automatize
• automaton
• autonomation

 

Descendants

• → French: automation
• → Italian: automazione (calque)
• → Swedish: automation

Translations

converting the controlling of a machine to an automatic system

Albanian: automatizim (sq) m Arabic: أَتْمَتَة‎ f (ʾatmata), تَأْلِيَّة‎ f (taʾliyya) Armenian: ավտոմատացում (hy) (avtomatacʿum) Asturian: automatización f Azerbaijani: avtomatlaşdırma Belarusian: аўтаматыза́цыя f (aŭtamatyzácyja) Bulgarian: автоматиза́ция (bg) f (avtomatizácija) Burmese: အော်တိုမေးရှင်း (autuime:hrang:) Catalan: automatització f Chinese: Mandarin: 自動化／自动化 (zh) (zìdònghuà) Czech: automatizace f Danish: automatisering c Dutch: automatisering (nl) f Esperanto: aŭtomatizo Estonian: automatiseerimine Finnish: automaatio (fi), automatisointi (fi) French: automatisation (fr) Galician: automatización (gl) f Georgian: ავტომატიზაცია (avṭomaṭizacia) German: Automatisierung (de) f Hebrew: אוֹטוֹמַצְיָה‎ (he) f (otomatya) Hindi: स्वचालन m (svacālan) Hungarian: automatizálás (hu) Indonesian: otomatisasi (id), automasi Italian: automazione (it) f, automatizzazione (it) f Japanese: 自動化 (じどうか, jidōka), オートメーション (ja) (ōtomēshon), オートメ化 (オートメか, ōtomeka) Kazakh: автоматтандыру (avtomattandyru) Khmer: ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិកម្ម (svay prɑvŏəttekam) Korean: 자동화(自動化) (ko) (jadonghwa), 오토메이션 (otomeisyeon) Kyrgyz: автоматизация (avtomatizatsiya) Latvian: automatizācija f Lithuanian: automatizacija (lt) f Macedonian: автоматизација f (avtomatizacija) Malay: automasi Maori: whakaaunoatanga Norman: automâtion f Norwegian: Bokmål: automasjon m Persian: خودکارسازی‎ (fa) (xod-kâr-sâzi), اتوماسیون‎ (otomâsyon) Polish: automatyzacja (pl) f Portuguese: automação (pt) f, automatização f Romanian: automatizare (ro) f Russian: автоматиза́ция (ru) f (avtomatizácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: аутоматиза́ција f Roman: automatizácija (sh) f Slovak: automatizácia f Slovene: avtomatizacija f Spanish: automatización (es) Swedish: automation (sv) c, automatisering (sv) c Tajik: худкорсозӣ (xudkorsozī) Thai: ระบบอัตโนมัติ (rá-bòp-àt-dtà-noo-mát) Turkish: otomasyon (tr) Ukrainian: автоматиза́ція (uk) f (avtomatyzácija) Urdu: خودکاری‎ f (xudkārī) Uzbek: avtomatizatsiya, avtomatlashtirish (uz) Vietnamese: sự tự động hóa (vi) (事自動化) Yiddish: אויטאָמאַציע‎ f (oytomatsye)

References

• automation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “automation”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English automation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/, /ɔ.tɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

automation f (plural automations)

1. automation

   Synonym: automatisation

Further reading

• “automation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English automation

Noun

automation c

1. automation

Declension

Declension of automation
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	automation	automationen	—	—
Genitive	automations	automationens	—	—

Synonyms

• automatisering
• robotisering