automatic
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
automatic (superlative dubious)
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- The reaction was automatic: flight!
- Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
- necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.
- (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.
- The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).
- (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
- (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive
- (capable of operating without external control) manual, non-automatic
- (without conscious thought) voluntary
- French: automatique
- German: automatisch
- Italian: automatico
- Portuguese: automático
- Russian: автомати́ческий
- Spanish: automático
- German: automatisch
- Italian: automatico
- Portuguese: automático
- Russian: автомати́ческий
- French: automatique
- German: Maschinen-, automatisch
- Italian: automatico
- Portuguese: automático
- Russian: автомати́ческий
- Spanish: automático
automatic (plural automatics)
- A car with automatic transmission.
- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
- A semi-automatic pistol.
- The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.
- (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission
- Russian: автома́т
- Spanish: automático
- French: semi-automatique
- Portuguese: semiautomática
- Russian: автома́т
- Spanish: semi-automática
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