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Automated vs Autonomy - What's the difference?

automated | autonomy |

As an adjective automated

is made automatic.

As a verb automated

is past tense of automate.

As a noun autonomy is

self-government; freedom to act or function independently.

automated

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Made automatic
  • Done by machine.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (automate)

    • autonomy

    English

    Noun

  • Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
  • (label) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
  • (label) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
  • (label) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.

    • Synonyms

    * (self-government) nationhood, nationality, sovereignty, independence

    Antonyms

    * (self-government) dependency, nonautonomy, inoperability * (capacity to make independent decisions) heteronomy, incapacity

    Derived terms

    * autonomic * autonomous, autonomously