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adj. Not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent: an autonomous judiciary; an autonomous division of a corporate conglomerate.

adj. Independent in mind or judgment; self-directed.

adj. Independent of the laws of another state or government; self-governing.

adj. Of or relating to a self-governing entity: an autonomous legislature.

adj. Self-governing with respect to local or internal affairs: an autonomous region of a country.

adj. Autonomic.

adj. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.

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

adj. 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).

adj. Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

adj. Having independent existence or laws.

Of or pertaining to autonomy or an autonomy.

Independent in government; having the right of self-government.

Subject to its own laws; specifically, in biology, independent of any other organism; not a form or stage of development of some other organism.

adj. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

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

adj. existing as an independent entity

"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."

free    independent   

self-governing    sovereign    selfstanding   

anonymous    synonymous   

self-governing    self-contained    unify    separate    civilised    secular    governmental    centralize    diverse    disparate