Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Common misspelling of autonomous.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word automous.

Examples

  • In neighbouring Tanzania, where the US embassy was also targetted on August 7, 1998, many cancellations have been recorded, especially on the semi-automous island of Zanzibar, which has also been the subject of travel advisories regarding terrorist activity.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • The meeting in Zanzibar, a semi-automous island off Tanzania, is set to last three days.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Do the technical limitations and dubious practices such as artificially boosting land traffic stats outweigh any near to medium term benefits we can expect from automous avatar technologies?

    World of SL 2009

  • Jim is writing a chapter on local authorities in Ireland, and the battles he fought as a younger man in 2015 and 2016 to reform those small, powerless entities into larger, more automous organisations with real political clout, but with a smaller footprint in the Irish political system.

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

  • Learn about programmable microcontrollers by building an automous robot cart that can sense its environment and avoid obstacles

    New: All Things O'Reilly 2009

  • Jim is writing a chapter on local authorities in Ireland, and the battles he fought as a younger man in 2015 and 2016 to reform those small, powerless entities into larger, more automous organisations with real political clout, but with a smaller footprint in the Irish political system.

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

  • Do the technical limitations and dubious practices such as artificially boosting land traffic stats outweigh any near to medium term benefits we can expect from automous avatar technologies?

    World of SL 2009

  • Jim is writing a chapter on local authorities in Ireland, and the battles he fought as a younger man in 2015 and 2016 to reform those small, powerless entities into larger, more automous organisations with real political clout, but with a smaller footprint in the Irish political system.

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

  • Nurses use a wide variety of skills --- often on an automous basis --- to provide patients with the care and attention they need for optimal health.

    Digital Doorway 2008

  • South Ossetia has been recognized as part of Georgia since the break-up of the Soviet Union, and for the last 20 years, SO has been trying to become independent from Georgia, they had a little civil war and they reached some kind of agreement in 1992 where SO would be automous from Georgia while still a part of it and Russia placed some peacekeepers there.

    THCNET 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.