Look up: automation

1. Automation
   Production processes monitored and controlled by machines with only minimal supervision from people.
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2. automation
   [n] - the condition of being automatically operated or controlled 2. [n] - equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation 3. [n] - a highly technical implementation for the control of equipment
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3. Automation
   In consoles, a feature that lets the engineer program control changes (such as fader level) so that upon playback of the multitrack recording these changes happen automatically.
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4. Automation
   See also COMPUTERISATION (162) The use of mechanical or electronic equipment, often computers, to save mental or physical labour
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5. automation
   1)the implementation of processes by automatic means; 2)the investigation, design, development and application of methods of rendering processes automatic, self-moving, or self-controlling Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • A) automation: automatic control...
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6. automation
   Controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human organs of observation, effort, and decision. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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7. automation
   noun equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation; `this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment`
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8. automation
   mechanization noun the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware; `automation replaces human workers by machines`
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9. automation
   noun the condition of being automatically operated or controlled; `automation increases productivity`
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10. automation
    the application of machines to tasks once performed by human beings or, increasingly, to tasks that would otherwise be impossible. Although the term ... [26 related articles]
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11. automation
    automation 1. A system in which a workplace or process has been converted to one that replaces or minimizes human labor with mechanical or electronic equipment. 2. A mechanical device, operated electronically, and which functions automatically, without continuous input from an operator. 3. The act ...
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12. Automation
    The process of sorting and routing mail very quickly using machines.
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13. Automation
    The application of computer-based system to improve productivity and quality of performance.
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14. automation
    automation, automatic operation and control of machinery or processes by devices, such as robots that can make and execute decisions without human intervention. The principal feature of such devices is their use of self-correcting control systems that employ feedback, i.e., they use part of their ou...
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15. automation
    Widespread use of self-regulating machines in industry. Automation involves the addition of control devices, using electronic sensing and computing techniques, which often follow the pattern of human nervous and brain functions, to already mechanized physical processes of production and distribut...
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16. automation
    Automatic, as opposed to human, operation or control of a process, equipment or a system; or the techniques and equipment used to achieve this. Most often applied to computer (or at least electronic) control of a manufacturing process. See also design automation, office automation, manularity, Manu...
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17. Automation
    `Automation` is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization. Whereas mechanization provided human operators with machinery to assist the...
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