automatic

adjective · nounB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more automaticmost automatic

Superlative

dubiousautomatick

1.
Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
Đồng nghĩa: self-operating
2.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
The reaction was automatic: flight!
Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
Đồng nghĩa: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless
3.
Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
4.
(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.
5.
(of a handgun) 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.
The US Army adopted John Browning's M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol).
6.
(programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
7.
(mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

automaticsautomatick

1.
A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
2.
A semi-automatic pistol.
The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

self-operatinginstinctive perfunctory thoughtless Pavlovian

Trái nghĩa

manualnon-automaticvoluntarymanual transmissionstandard transmissionstickstickshiftstick shiftmanual#Noun_2

Cùng gốc / liên quan

semi-automaticmanumaticmanual

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro automaticus, from automatum (automaton) + -icus, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον, neuter of αὐτόματος (self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous), from αὐτός (self, myself) + μέμαα (to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire). The original pronunciation, apparently with stress on the second syllable, was after the ultimate Greek base.