Automatic

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Acting or operating in a manner essentially independent of external influence or control.
  • adjective. Self-regulating.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Acting or done without volition or conscious control; involuntary.
  • adjective. Acting or done as if by machine; mechanical.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Capable of firing continuously until ammunition is exhausted or the trigger is released.
  • adjective. Semiautomatic.
  • noun. An automatic machine or device.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An automatic firearm.
  • noun. A semiautomatic firearm.
  • noun. A transmission or a motor vehicle with an automatic gear-shifting mechanism.
  • noun. undefined
  • idiom. (on automatic) Functioning by or as if by automatic machine or device.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Acting as an automaton.
  • Conducted or carried on by self-acting machinery.
  • In physiology: Not voluntary; not under the control of, or not effected by, volition: said of certain muscular actions.
  • Not reflex: said, for example, of certain activities of ganglion-cells.
  • noun. One who is subject to automatism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having an inherent power of action or motion.
  • adjective. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; operating with minimal human intervention; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; The opposite of manual.
  • adjective. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control. The opposite of voluntary.
  • adjective. like the unthinking functioning of a machine.
  • adjective. such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery.
  • noun. light machine gun.
  • noun. a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
  • adjective. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
  • adjective. Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • adjective. Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • noun. A car with automatic transmission.
  • noun. A semi-automatic firearm.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
  • noun. a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
  • adjective. operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
  • adjective. without volition or conscious control
  • noun. light machine gun
  • Word Usage
    "No effort is required to dissolve them, which is the meaning of the term automatic liberation (rang-grol, self-liberation)."
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