Autonomous (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. Government.
    • self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
    • pertaining to an autonomy, or a self-governing community.
  2. having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent: a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit.
  3. (of a machine, device, etc.) able to operate with little or no human control or intervention: an autonomous vehicle.
  4. Biology.
    • existing and functioning as an independent organism.
    • growing naturally or spontaneously, without cultivation.
adjective
  1. (of a community, country, etc) possessing a large degree of self-government
  2. of or relating to an autonomous community
  3. independent of others
  4. philosophy
    • acting or able to act in accordance with rules and principles of one's own choosing
    • (in the moral philosophy of Kant, of an individual's will) directed to duty rather than to some other end
  5. existing as an organism independent of other organisms or parts
  6. a variant spelling of autonomic (def. 3)
Autonomous (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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