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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Examples of "automatic" in Sentences
- The action of the machine is automatic.
- The brushes automatically clean the floor.
- The drum drives the automatic transmission.
- The automatic counters are a great motivator.
- The article appears in the category automatically.
- It automatically adapts the lengths of the subintervals.
- The position of the defects are then plotted automatically.
- At the same time, the automatic focusing mechanism is rendered inoperative.