smarten

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smarten

/ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/

verb smartens · smartening · smartened

transitive To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up. The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
transitive To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.). I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
transitive To augment with computer technology. How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
Similar: computerize

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@misc{smarten_2026,
  title = {smarten},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/smarten},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}