automatic

Meaning

Adj

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
4. Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
5. An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
6. Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
7. Having one or more finite-state automata.

Noun

1. A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
2. A semi-automatic pistol.

Opposite of

manual, non-automatic, voluntary, manual#Noun_2, manual transmission, standard transmission, stick, stickshift, stick shift

Synonyms

mechanical

self-acting

automated

machinelike

automatic pistol

reflexive

reflex

involuntary

automatonlike

auto

automatically

automatical

automatic rifle

automatic weapon

machine rifle

robotic

spontaneous

selffirer

robotlike

autonomic

self-actuating

automobile

natural

offhand

perfunctory

automatics

automat

operatorless device

autoloading

self-loading

self-motion

autoplant

unconditioned

uncontrolled

unlearned

automatic gun

self-acting device

self-loader

adv.

self-operating

self-propellent

autoloader

automagical

automatic plant

robot device

automatic system

automatic gear

automatic trnsmission

default

instinctive

Translations

automatique

automático

automatisch

automatico

automatisch

automático

αυτόματος

automàtic

Automatik

otomatik

zelfwerkend

werktuiglijk

selbsttätig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin automaticus, from Classical Latin automatum (“automaton”) + -icus (adjectival suffix), from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”). The original pronunciation, apparently with stress on the second syllable, was after the ultimate Greek base.

Sentences

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