What does autonomous mean?

Definitions for autonomous
ɔˈtɒn ə məsau·ton·o·mous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereignadjective

    (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

    "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

  2. autonomousadjective

    existing as an independent entity

    "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"

  3. autonomous, self-directed, self-reliantadjective

    (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

Wiktionary

  1. autonomousadjective

    Self-governing. Governing independently.

  2. autonomousadjective

    Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.

  3. autonomousadjective

    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).

  4. Etymology: See autonomy and -ous.

Wikipedia

  1. autonomous

    In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing. Autonomy can also be defined from a human resources perspective, where it denotes a (relatively high) level of discretion granted to an employee in his or her work. In such cases, autonomy is known to generally increase job satisfaction. Self-actualized individuals are thought to operate autonomously of external expectations. In a medical context, respect for a patient's personal autonomy is considered one of many fundamental ethical principles in medicine.

ChatGPT

  1. autonomous

    Autonomous refers to a state, entity or action that is independent or self-governing, and able to make decisions or function without external control or influence. It can be used to describe a wide range of subjects, such as countries, organizations, robots or vehicles that operate independently.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Autonomousadjective

    independent in government; having the right or power of self-government

  2. Autonomousadjective

    having independent existence or laws

  3. Etymology: [Gr. ; self + to assign, hold, sway.]

Editors Contribution

  1. autonomous

    The ability, trust and power to make intelligent choices.

    The region was autonomous and they had the power and trust to make their own intelligent choices.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020  


  2. autonomous

    The legislative ability, choice, power and authority to govern.

    The region has autonomous authority to govern.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 23, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'autonomous' in Adjectives Frequency: #965

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of autonomous in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of autonomous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of autonomous in a Sentence

  1. Tetsuro Ueda:

    We want to fulfill people's emotional needs, rather than the driver, we want to focus on the riding experience for all passengers, including the driver. Because when it comes to the stage of autonomous driving, the driver's control is less and less, and the interaction with the surrounding passengers is increasing.

  2. Laurent Eschenauer:

    Fleye is supercharged with sensors like most drones, accelerometers, gyros, altimeters. It is also using computer vision to find where it is in space, especially indoors where you don't have GPS. So, Fleye is capable of staying on the same spot hovering without any pilot controlling it just by looking at the environment so it knows where it is, so we have a vision of the future of flying robots which becomes totally autonomous. So no more pilot in the loop, floating around us and helping us with many different tasks, collecting data, transporting things for us.

  3. Alexious Lee:

    China is expected to climb the autonomous technology ladder very quickly, mainly because Chinese companies can access the local navigation satellite system, which gives them an advantage over their international peers.

  4. Paul Tournier:

    It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

  5. Executive Dieter Zetsche:

    You can see from reading the papers that we are trying to acquire a platform together with our German competitors, to gain control over the platform which enables autonomous driving, for exactly these reasons, we have the goal of designing security into the software.

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