Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules
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)
action and judgment existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"
action and judgment existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies" of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state
Able to act independently In the case of Swift, this means that the spacecraft can repoint itself without ground controllers feeding it commands
An autonomous country, organization, or group governs or controls itself rather than being controlled by anyone else. They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province. = independent
existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies"
of persons; free from external control and constraint in e g action and judgment
agents are proactive, goal-directed and act on their own performing tasks on your behalf without necessarily requiring user initiation, confirmation, and notification