automatic

IPA: ɔtʌmˈætɪk

noun

  • A car with automatic transmission.
  • A semi-automatic pistol.

adjective

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