automatic
Pronunciation: /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/
The English word “automatic” has 9 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- 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.
- Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- Having one or more finite-state automata.
noun
- A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
- A semi-automatic pistol.
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin automaticus, from Classical Latin automatum (“automaton”) + -icus (adjectival suffix), 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”). The original pronunciation, apparently with stress on the…
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