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Autonomous

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Adjective

1. autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign

(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

Example Sentences:
'an autonomous judiciary'
'a sovereign state'

2. autonomous

existing as an independent entity

Example Sentences:
'the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies'

3. autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Autonomous

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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
a. 
acting or able to act in accordance with rules and principles of one's own choosing
b. 
(in the moral philosophy of Kant, of an individual's will) directed to duty rather than to some other end
Compare heteronomous (sense 3), See also categorical imperative
5. biology
existing as an organism independent of other organisms or parts
6.  a variant spelling of autonomic (sense 3)

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Autonomous

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adjective
1. 
of or having to do with an autonomy
2. 
a. 
having self-government
b. 
functioning independently without control by others
3.  Biology
a. 
existing, functioning, or developing independently of other parts or forms
b. 
autotrophic
c. 
resulting from internal causes; autonomic

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Autonomous

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adj.
1. Not controlled by others or by outside forces; independent: an autonomous judiciary; an autonomous division of a corporate conglomerate.
2. Independent in mind or judgment; self-directed.
3.
a. Independent of the laws of another state or government; self-governing.
b. Of or relating to a self-governing entity: an autonomous legislature.
c. Self-governing with respect to local or internal affairs: an autonomous region of a country.
4. Autonomic.

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