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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔː.tə.meɪt/
• (without the cot–caught merger, General American, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˈɔ.təˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɔ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɔ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]
• (cot–caught merger, General American, Atlantic Canada) IPA: /ˈɑ.təˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾəˌmeɪt], /ˈɑ.toʊˌmeɪt/, [ˈɑ.ɾoʊˌmeɪt]
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈoː.tə.mæɪt/, [ˈoː.ɾə.mæɪt]
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

automate (third-person singular simple present automates, present participle automating, simple past and past participle automated)

1. (ambitransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.

   Many offices still need to automate.

   We saved time and money by automating the process.

   • 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 83:

     In the early '60's a Yoyodyne executive living near L.A. and located someplace in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job.

同意語

• robotize

派生語

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形容詞

automate

1. vocative masculine singular of automatus and automatos