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What does autonomous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word autonomous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.
  2. Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
  3. (Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) 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).
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He went on to establish the first administratively autonomous department of medical psychology in the United States.
The system is employed in a variety of modes, including autonomous, air-to-ground, direct or indirect, single-shot and rapid or ripple fire.
Each autonomous quadrotor manages to hold their position in the formation perfectly.
The rather ambiguously autonomous stature of art in militaristic states still has the ability to put a guilty shiver down the spine.
Part of the Ottoman Empire from 1517, it became practically autonomous under the rule of the Khedives during the nineteenth century.
I would argue that racism is neither reducible to social class or gender nor wholly autonomous.

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