automatic

Meanings

Plural: automatics

Noun

• light machine gun
• a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
• A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
• A semi-automatic pistol.

Adjective

• operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
  • "automatic transmission"
  • "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts"

Adjective Satellite

• resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
  • "an automatic `thank you'"
• without volition or conscious control
  • "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"

Adj

• Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
• Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
• Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
• Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
• 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.
• Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
• Having one or more finite-state automata.

Synonyms

automatic pistol, automatic rifle, automatonlike, instinctive, machine rifle, machinelike, perfunctory, reflex, reflexive, robotic, robotlike, self-operating, thoughtless

Antonyms

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

Related Words

automagical, automat, automation, automatization, automatize, automaton, automobile, autopilot, manual, manumatic, semi-automatic

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