autonomous.

Able to govern itself or operate without continuous outside direction.

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Words that belong together

• autonomous vehicle
• autonomous region

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The autonomous vehicle rerouted itself around the damaged bridge.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.