automate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

automate
    v 1: make automatic or control or operate automatically;
         "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the
         robot" [syn: {automatize}, {automatise}, {automate}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

automate \automate\ v.
   1. make automatic; to change [a process] so that it is mostly
      automatic; to substitute machinery for human labor in an
      activity.

   Syn: automatize.
        [WordNet 1.5] [+PJC]

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