automatize

English

Alternative forms

• automatise

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)

1. 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.

2. (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

• automatization

Related terms

• automat
• automate
• automation
• automaton

Translations

automate — see automate

Galician

Verb

automatize

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of automatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

automatize

1. inflection of automatizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative