automation

See also: automâtion

English

Etymology

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

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.
   • 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):

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

Related terms

• automat
• automatic
• automatization/automatisation
• automatize/automatise
• automaton

Translations

converting the controlling of a machine to an automatic system

• Albanian: automatizim (sq)
• Bulgarian: автоматизация (bg) f (avtomatizácija)
• Catalan: automatització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自動化 (zh), 自动化 (zh) (zìdònghuà)

• Czech: automatizace f
• Dutch: automatisering (nl)
• Finnish: automaatio (fi), automatisointi (fi)
• French: automatisation (fr), robotisation (fr)
• German: Automatisierung (de) f
• Hungarian: automatizálás (hu)

• Japanese: 自動化 (じどうか, jidōka), オートメーション (ja) (ōtomēshon), オートメ化 (ōtome-ka)
• Khmer: ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិកម្ម (svai pror vaut kam)
• Norman: automâtion f
• Persian: اتوماسیون‎‎ (otomāsion)
• Polish: automatyzacja
• Portuguese: automação (pt) f
• Romanian: automatizare (ro) f
• Russian: автоматиза́ция (ru) f (avtomatizácija)
• Spanish: automatización (es)
• Swedish: automation (sv) c

References

• automation at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “automation” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

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French

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

automation f (plural automations)

1. automation

Synonyms

• automatisation

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Swedish

Noun

automation c

1. automation

Declension

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

Synonyms

• automatisering
• robotisering