verb
control a function, process, or creation by a computer
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They computerized the car industry
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we live in a cybernated age
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cybernate a factory
• Syn: ↑computerize, ↑computerise
• Derivationally related forms: ↑computer (for: ↑computerise), ↑computer (for: ↑computerize), ↑computerization (for: ↑computerize), ↑cybernation
• Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing
• Hypernyms: ↑work, ↑put to work
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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/suy"beuhr nayt'/, v.t., cybernated, cybernating.
to control by cybernation.
[1960-65; back formation from CYBERNATION]
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cybernate /sīˈbər-nāt/
transitive verb
To control (a manufacturing process, etc) by means of a computer
ORIGIN: ↑cyber- and -ate, suffix forming a verb
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cyˈbernated adjective
cybernāˈtion noun
Useful english dictionary. 2012.