automatize
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French automatiser, from automate (“automaton”). Equivalent to automate + -ize.
Verb
automatize (third-person singular simple present automatizes, present participle automatizing, simple past and past participle automatized)
- To make or become automatic.
- Student responses are gradually automatized through repetition.
- 2003, Dorian Yeo, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Mathematics[1], Wiley-Blackwell:
- […] 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.
- (transitive) To cause to be automated; to automate.
- We need to automatize our production facility.
- 1955 June, “Science and Industry”, in The Atlantic[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 November 2025:
- Now thinking is required to build truly automatic factories. Only a war, he [Norbert Wiener] believes, could automatize industry overnight.
Derived terms
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Translations
automate — see automate
Galician
Verb
automatize
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of automatizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
automatize
- inflection of automatizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative