autonomous

IPA: ɔtˈɑnʌmʌs

adjective

  • 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).
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Examples of "autonomous" in Sentences

  • Leave him in autonomous mode to explore his environment in a variety of ways or control him directly.
  • The term autonomous system refers to a network that is within the control of a single company or organization.
  • Last summer, News Corp. set up what it calls an autonomous committee to liaise with police and provide any documents requested.
  • Last summer, News Corp. established what it calls an autonomous committee to liaise with police and provide any documents requested.
  • Last summer, News Corp. established what it calls an autonomous committee to liaise with police and provide any documents requested by investigators.
  • When and under what circumstances missile defense computers are actually turned loose in autonomous mode is something you won't hear much public discussion about.
  • The team coined the phrase "autonomous checkout clerk," which is exactly what follows, as the robot locates the bar code by spinning the object in its hands, reading the numeric code, and then putting the item in a bag.
  • China, sensitive to instability or any other perceived threat to one-party rule, is wary of foreigners in its ethnic border areas, which it calls "autonomous regions", especially ahead of politically charged anniversaries.
  • We use the term autonomous geographies to define '… those spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective forms of politics, identity and citizenship, which are created through a combination of resistance and creation, and the questioning and challenging of dominant laws and social norms.'

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