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Automatic   /ˌɔtəmˈætɪk/  /ˌɔtoʊmˈætɪk/   Listen
adjective
Automatical, Automatic  adj.  
1.
Having an inherent power of action or motion. "Nothing can be said to be automatic."
2.
Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; operating with minimal human intervention; esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse; an automatic transmission. The opposite of manual. Note: Narrower terms are: autoloading(prenominal), semiautomatic; automated, machine-controlled, machine-driven; self-acting, self-activating, self-moving, self-regulating; self-locking; self-winding. Also See: mechanical.
3.
(Physiol.) Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; as, automatic movements or functions. The opposite of voluntary.
Synonyms: reflex(prenominal), reflexive,involuntary "Unconscious or automatic reasoning."
4.
Like the unthinking functioning of a machine. "An automatic 'thank you'"
Synonyms: automaton-like, automatonlike, machinelike, machine-like, robotlike.
Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery.


noun
automatic  n.  
1.
Light machine gun.
Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle
2.
A pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released; as, a.45 automatic.
Synonyms: automatic pistol.





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"Automatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... Slow as these automatic discoveries had seemed, they had been in reality so swift that the report was still ringing in his ears when he who must have made it sprang hideously into being across the palings. A hand darted through them and caught Pocket's ...
— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung
... process, it will be simply and solely because you and Kenneth and I are here to see that he does not. Do you know what the men call him out on the main line? When they see the Nadia trundling in, they say, 'Here comes old Automatic ...
— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde
... the sending is an occasional rather than a steady practice. Costs in this work are cut by better planning of the work and facilities, setting work standards, paying a bonus in excess of the standards, and by the introduction of automatic machinery. The Post Office now permits, under certain conditions, the use of a machine which prints a stamp that is really a frank. This is now being used very generally by concerns which have a heavy outgoing mail. Then there are sealing machines, ...
— How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence • Mary Owens Crowther
... uttered in an emphatic voice, half-surprised remonstrance, half-automatic rebuke; "I am astonished!" She looked it. She pursed her lips more tightly, and gazed at the pair of culprits as though she had hoped better things of them and again had been disappointed. "You know quite well that this is out ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... into the habit of associating ideas, weighing values, and carrying points, unconsciously, before the subject is properly mastered. "Ninety-nine hundredths, or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual," says Professor James, "from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. Our dressing and undressing, our eating and drinking, our greetings and partings, our hat-raisings and giving way for ladies to precede, nay, even most of the forms of our common speech, ...
— How To Study and Teaching How To Study • F. M. McMurry


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