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Semiautomatic   /sˌɛmiˌɔtəmˈætɪk/  /sˌɛmaɪˌɔtəmˈætɪk/  /sˌɛmɪˌɔtəmˈætɪk/   Listen
Semiautomatic

noun
1.
A pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously.  Synonym: semiautomatic pistol.
adjective
1.
Partially automatic.
2.
(of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously.  Synonyms: autoloading, self-loading.



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"Semiautomatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... these illustrations that there are many natural methods, automatic or semiautomatic in character, by which the one art receives aid from the other; that in the beginning of the transfer of textile ornament to fictile forms the process is purely mechanical, and that it is continued automatically without any ...
— A Study Of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development Of Form And Ornament • William H. Holmes

... A semiautomatic rifle with carefully timed shots searched the area where he had been. "Good man," he noted professionally and replied with a pistol shot. He rolled again back to where he had been, but ...
— Take the Reason Prisoner • John Joseph McGuire



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