automatic — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Synonyme

   self-operating

   Antonyme

   manualnon-automatic

   Beispiele

   The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.

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   "But you know of the automatic card-player?" […] Carrados had heard more than once casual allusions to a wonderful mechanical contrivance that played cards with discrimination.

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Synonyme

   instinctiveperfunctorythoughtlessPavlovian

   Antonyme

   voluntary

   Beispiele

   The reaction was automatic: flight!

   Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.

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   "I don't know why! Sometimes I feel like a girl! Sometimes a guy! I don't know why I feel that way! I just do! Always have! I can't remember not feeling this way! How do you explain something as natural and automatic to you as breathing?!"

3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

   Beispiele

   Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.

4. Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   Gebrauch

   • of a firearm such as a machine gun

   Beispiele

   Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.

5. 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.

   Gebrauch

   • of a handgun

   Beispiele

   The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).

   From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.

6. Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.

   Gebrauch

   • of a local variable

   Beispiele

   Automatic variables are created on the stack. They are valid only from the point where they are declared to the end of the function.

7. Having one or more finite-state automata.

   Gebrauch

   • of a group

Substantiv

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

   Antonyme

   manualmanual transmissionstandard transmissionstickstickshiftstick shift

   Beispiele

   I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. A semi-automatic pistol.

   Beispiele

   The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.

   "I told him that if my automatic was not a spook-stopper, nothin' else would serve."

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   'The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.'

Adjektiv

1. operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control

   Antonyme

   manual

   Beispiele

   automatic transmission

   a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts

2. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

   Synonyme

   automatonlikemachinelikerobotlikerobotic

   Beispiele

   an automatic ‘thank you’

   machinelike efficiency

3. without volition or conscious control

   Synonyme

   reflexreflexive

   Beispiele

   the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light

   a reflex knee jerk

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   sneezing is reflexive

Substantiv

1. self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire

   Synonyme

   automatic riflemachine rifle

   Oberbegriffe

   machine gunrifle

2. a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

   Synonyme

   automatic pistol

   Oberbegriffe

   pistolhandgunside armshooting ironautomatic firearmautomatic gunautomatic weapon