automatizationn.
/ˌɔːtəmətʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ɔːˌtɒmətʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ɔˌtɑmədəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ɔˌtɑməˌtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /əˌtɑmədəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ɑˌtɑmədəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ɑˌtɑməˌtaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The action or process of making behaviour, language, etc., automatic, habitual, or producible without conscious thought.
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1869 A. Barratt Physical Ethics ii. i. 49 These different combinations of pleasures and pains,..the higher of which are the results of automatization of reasoning, form the different emotions.
1889 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 26 502 These [reflex and automatic acts] have originated..as results of voluntary..acts by the ordinary and well-known process of automatization.
1907 M. V. O'Shea Ling. Developm. & Educ. viii. 209 There should be no effort made to have him perfect his spelling by drilling upon formal lists; automatization must be secured mainly by synthetic experience.
1932 Discovery Oct. 336/2 The initial effect [of noise] tends to wear off very rapidly, mainly in consequence of automatization of the task.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 776/2 Some kind of disturbance in the transmission processes and an associated impairment in automatization would appear to affect memory.
1976 J. M. Coetzee in Eng. in Africa 3 48 Prague School linguists call the process by which repeatedly used speech forms wear a neural rut for themselves automatization.
2004 Canad. Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. (Nexis) 58 272 At the third stage, or autonomous phase, skills are believed to be refined and to become more automated. Mechanisms like tuning..and automatization..have been proposed to describe the processes that occur at this stage of learning.
2. Originally U.S. The action or process of making a system, process, or device automatic or automated; the result of this. Cf. automation n.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > management methods or systems > [noun] > automatic control of manufacture
automatization1902
automation1948
cybernation1962
1902 Pacific Monthly Apr. 185 The wonderful achievements of America's industrial leaders—this marvelous systemization, automatization, if you will, of methods,..this process of unifying..and labor-saving which characterize these methods.
1913 Bull. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 117 28 Automatization of the manufacture of hollow and sheet glass is only a question of time.
1937 C. G. Philp Conquest of Stratosphere x. 82 The instruments were designed to work automatically as far as possible..and the degree of automatization reached a high standard.
1956 Times 8 May 20 The whole of the Lisbon urban telephone service is now served by automatic equipment... Automatization is now being extended to that part of the..system which lies south of the river.
1980 Japan Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 9 Sept. 25 The single-lens reflex camera is also undergoing automatization.
2002 R. Hernández Mobility of Workers under Adv. Capitalism v. 167 In the process of mechanization, automatization,..and profit hunting, hardly anyone is free from the threat of being sent to the unemployment pool.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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