单词 | automative |
释义 | automativeadj. 1. = automatic adj. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > types of machine generally > [adjective] > automatic automatical1586 automatic1599 automatous1646 automatary1652 automatarian1656 automatal1682 self-acting1775 self-controlled1781 automative1794 automate1818 self-directing1831 autodynamic1869 1794 J. Priestley Heads of Lect. Exper. Philos. Ded. p. xv As motions secondarily automative are to those that are primarily so. 1837 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 14 Oct. 56/2 An act, to be effectual, should resemble the machinery, and be in some measure automative. 1867 Intellectual Observer July 473 A Photographometer..is entirely automative, and very simple, so that it may be used by those possessing but little manipulative skill. 1900 Med. Century 1 Jan. 25/2 The entire process is automative; there are no valves or small passages to stop up and heat, which is the fault with all previous apparatus. 1935 J. W. Campbell in Astounding Stories Oct. 16/2 It was a long climb, an infinite, weary climb, up half a mile of winding ramps, past deserted, dead homes; past..motionless little automative passenger cars. 1955 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 10 Nov. ii. 21/1 Little black boxes which make automative atom bombs go ‘boom!’ 1997 Tulsa World (Nexis) 17 May 4 Convenient cabinets and a counter are in the utility room and a door opens to the two-car garage. The garage has automative door openers. 2. = automotive adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [adjective] > of or relating to motor vehicles automotive1898 automative1922 1922 F. B. Jacobs Production Grinding xiii. 187 The regrinding of automative parts for repair purposes is a well-established business. 1940 Los Angeles Times 24 Mar. vi. 6/6 Because the horse pulled a wagon automative engineers took it for granted that their newly invented engines must also pull. 1988 Metalworking News (Nexis) 2 May 10 A non-synchronous assembly system designed and built by Cargill Detroit Corp. to manufacture an assortment of automative and truck distributors, was brought on line last week at Ford Motor Co.'s parts-making plant. 2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 58/2 Working with the Big Three automative companies to come up with a car that would be capable of 80 miles to the gallon. 3. Of or relating to the automation of a manufacturing or other process. ΚΠ 1956 Listener 31 May 703/3 The recent report from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research deals with a number of factors... The conclusion appears to be that they need not be limitations upon our making full use of automative techniques. 1976 Econ. & Society Nov. 429 The introduction of automative systems, a process currently under way, has meant machines taking over the function of the supervision of the process of production from men. 1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 15 June 12 MFI technical experts had visited Astahan's factory in Johor and met with the company's senior officials on ways of increasing productivity through automative processes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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