automatic

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English

Alternative forms

• automatick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French automatique, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɔː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌoː.təˈmæt.ɪk/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.ʈəˌmaʈ.ɪk/, /ˈɔː.ʈə.məʈ.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ætɪk
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧mat‧ic

Adjective

automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic) (superlative dubious)

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Synonym: self-operating

   Antonyms: manual, non-automatic

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless

   Antonym: voluntary
3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

5. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   Coordinate terms: semi-automatic, burst mode, selective action, bolt action, lever action, (single-round per loading/chambering action) pump action

6. (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.
7. (programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
8. (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.

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Related terms

Descendants

• → Albanian: automatik
• → Malay: automatik
• → Pohnpeian: audomadik

Translations

Noun

automatic (plural automatics)

2. A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.

   Antonyms: manual, manual transmission, standard transmission, stick, stickshift, stick shift

4. A semi-automatic pistol.

   Coordinate term: revolver

Translations

See also

(automotive):

• semi-automatic
• manumatic
• manual

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French automatique. By surface analysis, automat +‎ -ic.

Adjective

automatic m or n (feminine singular automatică, masculine plural automatici, feminine and neuter plural automatice)

1. automatic

Declension