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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Automatic \Au`to*mat"ic\, Automatical \Au`to*mat"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. automatique See {Automaton}.] 1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. Nothing can be said to be automatic. --Sir H. Davy. 2. Pertaining to or produced by an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself as the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse. 3. Not voluntary; not depending on the will mechanical; as automatic movements or functions. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. --H. Spenser. {Automatic arts}, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. --Ure. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: automatic adj 1: operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts" [ant: {manual}] 2: like the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: {automatonlike}, {machinelike}, {robotlike}] 3: (physiology) without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" [syn: {reflex(a)}, {reflexive}] n 1: light machine gun [syn: {automatic rifle}, {machine rifle}] 2: a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released [syn: {automatic pistol}]
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