▪ (of a device, machine, or building) able to vary its state or action in response to varying situations, varying requirements, and past experience.Similarroboticautomaticself-regulatingcapable of learninginformal:smart
▪ (of a computer terminal) incorporating a microprocessor and having its own processing capability.
Word Originearly 16th century: from Latin intelligent- ‘understanding’, from the verb intelligere, variant of intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.