automatic meaning
EN[ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk] [ˌɔtəˈmætɪk] [-ætɪk]US
WAutomatic
- Automatic may refer to:
- NounPLautomaticsPREauto-SUF-atic
- A car with automatic transmission.
- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
- A semi-automatic firearm.
- A car with automatic transmission.
- Adjective
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- The reaction was automatic: flight!
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- She installed an automatic waterer for her garden.
- As pretacked bodies approach the automatic respot line on the body build trucks, the latches that hold them to the trucks are manually released.
- In driver's education, they used to teach students to drive in cars with a three-on-the-tree, but now the cars all have automatic transmission.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Automatic tube current modulation technology was applied, and the milliamperage range was adjusted to 50-600 mAs.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- My old car was a stickshift, but my new one is an automatic.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of automatic in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
- en automatick
- en automatics
- en automatical
- en automaticity
- fr automaticité
Source: Wiktionary