smart home
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A home equipped with an automation system controlling such things as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances.
Example Sentences
- "McCovey’s smart home is more than a celebrity's novelty item. It is part of a fast-growing industry: home automation."
- "Smart home technologies mean your heating comes on at the right time, you can manage your lights from a smartphone, and your dishwasher sends you text messages."
- "“Full control over one’s smart home is, at least in the present tense, an impossibility,” she said. “Part of that is because the whole purpose of a smart device is to give up control to someone or something — whether that is a device, a platform, its code. Users delegate work, thinking or management to smart devices.”"