Autonomous vs Unmanned - What's the difference?
autonomous | unmanned |
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
Not operated by a person or a crew.
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As adjectives the difference between autonomous and unmanned
is that autonomous is self-governing intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently while unmanned is not operated by a person or a crew.As a verb unmanned is
(unman).autonomous
English
Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* (governing independently) sovereign, self-governing * (acting on ones own behalf) selfstanding, self-directedAntonyms
* heteronomousDerived terms
* autonomously * semiautonomousSee also
* autonomous area * autonomous navigationunmanned
English
Adjective
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