AUTOMATIC
\ˌɔːtəmˈatɪk], \ˌɔːtəmˈatɪk], \ˌɔː_t_ə_m_ˈa_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of AUTOMATIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
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light machine gun
By Princeton University
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a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
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light machine gun
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having the power of self-action; done unconsciously.
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A pistol which can be rapidly discharged without raising the hammer.
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Automatically.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Spontaneous, not induced by outside causes. 2. Involuntary or not voluntary, performed unconsciously.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Having the power of an automaton, said of those functions which are performed involuntarily in the animal system.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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That which acts of itself. Those movements are called automatic which are executed without volition:- involuntary motions, motus automatici seu automati seu involuntarii.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Self-acting, i. e., without the intervention of the will. The term is applied to acts which, although voluntary at first, become habitual and continue to be performed without any further attention being bestowed on them and also to designate those physiological activities, such as those of the heart and respiratory center which are due to intrinsic changes within the structure itself. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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