automatic

IPA: ɔtʌmˈætɪk

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.

Examples of "automatic" in Sentences

What many companies went to was what we call automatic billing.
Thus what we call automatic is really an overflow of what has previously been stored up.
The term automatic data capture is also known as automatic identification and data capture.
To this Marill attached a crude form of modem, operating at 2,000 bits per second, which he called an automatic dialer.
No effort is required to dissolve them, which is the meaning of the term automatic liberation (rang-grol, self-liberation).
FOSTER: Now, Darling says he aims to ban what he called automatic bonuses and expects to introduce legislation putting that into effect in the next few weeks.
I think they do that because even though "automatic" is just "semi-auto", like my 1911, "automatic" just sounds more deadly to sheep who don't know any better.
1 The term 'automatic telephone dialing system' means equipment which uses a random or sequential number generator to produce telephone numbers to be called and to dial such numbers.'