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/ˌɔtəmˈætɪk/ /ˌɔtoʊmˈætɪk/ Listen

Automatic

adjective

Operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control. "A budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts"

Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine. Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike. "Machinelike efficiency"

Without volition or conscious control. Synonyms: reflex, reflexive. "A reflex knee jerk" , "Sneezing is reflexive"

noun

Light machine gun. Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle.

A pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released. Synonym: automatic pistol.

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"Automatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... pleasant and curious memory. His mind was exercised superficially, not in thinking, but in wondering how it was he had come to kiss a strange woman. He said to himself that such conduct was not right; but this statement was no more than the automatic working of a mind long exercised in the distinctions of right and wrong, for, almost in the same breath, he assured himself that what he had done did not matter in the least. His opinions were undergoing a curious change. Right and wrong were meeting and blending ...

— The Crock of Gold • James Stephens

... reach of the real difficulties of its task, a task which every admiral in his service knew to be beyond the strength of the Imperial Navy. Nor did Napoleon even approach a solution of the problem he had set himself—invasion over an uncommanded sea. With our impregnable flotilla hold covered by an automatic concentration of battle-squadrons off Ushant, his army could never even have put forth, unless he had inflicted upon our covering fleet such a defeat as would have given him command of the sea, and with absolute control of the sea the passage of ...

— Some Principles of Maritime Strategy • Julian Stafford Corbett

... tilt, the children scuttling to the cabin. Johnny swore at the dogs and they did not bite. He followed the children and they did not stop. So he came presently to the oak and roused Cliff, who came promptly to an elbow with a wicked looking automatic pointed straight ...

— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower

... groaned. "Hear the explosion. Albert, Albert ... you have a fertile mind. Why didnt I hide myself before they told us to clear out? Why didnt I get W R to hire a plane? Why didnt I foresee this and do any of a hundred things? A microphone and automatic moviecamera ... Goony Gootes, they called him, the man who missed all bets.... A captive balloon, now.... Hay! ...

— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... with a benignly triumphant expression, and a complacent rustle of silken skirts. Harriet, beneath an automatic smile, hid a troubled heart. Royal was losing no time, Ward his innocent instrument, and this fatuous old lady of course playing his game for him! Madame Carter had always spoiled Nina in something a trifle more defined and malicious than the usual grandmotherly fashion. She had indulged the ...

— Harriet and the Piper - (Norris Volume XI) • Kathleen Norris

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