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Automation is the name of the thing: using computers and machines instead of people to do a job. You can talk about factory automation, office automation, or “more automation in the bank.” The tidy story is “machines help us go faster.” Though actually, the word often carries a worry too — whose job goes away? — so news, unions, and workers use it with a heavier feeling than a school book does. A Ford boss, Delmar S. Harder, first used the word in the 1940s, from automatic (or automaton) plus -ion, when car plants were putting in more machines. Younger people now also say AI automation for software that , files, or clicks for you; older factory talk still pictures robots on a line. is the adjective; this word is the noun. You have automation; a system is .
From the word’s history
From automatic (or automaton) + -ion; coined by Ford executive Delmar S. Harder in the 1940s.
1940 年代福特主管 Harder 所造：automatic 加 -ion。
組成From automatic + -ion, or automaton + -ion. A Ford executive, Delmar S. Harder, coined it in the 1940s.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
automationnoun/ˌɔː.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/
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The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.
- With all the discussion of automation, one point seems to have been largely overlooked. In a number of fields, automatic controls do not merely cut costs. They also make possible production processes that otherwise could not be attempted.
- The presidential campaign has been more focused on Bain Capital and an “apology tour” than on the challenges created by globalization and automation.
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