Automatic

Definition: Automatic

Automatic

Adjective

1. Operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts".

2. Like the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency".

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".

Noun

1. Light machine gun.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "automatic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Automatic

Arms

Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:

Insulation, Fire extinction

Wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam; sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.

Necessity

Involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious, unwitting, unthinking; unintentional; (undesigned); impulsive.

Crosswords: Automatic

Romanian (automatically).

In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George. Based on the novel 'Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom' by Peter George.)

Okay, trusty ol' automatic camera, time to make a couple a' bucks (Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends; writing credit: Donald F. Glut)

Come at it from this angle and locate the automatic flip-flop override device here, which in turn will diffuse the antigyroscopic preinterface thruster chamber, and the pneaumatic centripetal antigravity shield deflectors, then you simply deactivate the axial gyro-presubinertia-photomegatronic oscillator that you see here (Hardware Wars; writing credit: Ernie Fosselius)

She cooked'em just the way I like'em. She cooked them one at a time, all the fixings, none of them conveyer belts, no automatic burger machines, none of that factory stuff, it's just a real hamburger made by a real human being (The Ernest Film Festival; writing credit: Georg Schiemann)

Did the Cusamano kids ever find $50,000 in krugerrandts and a .45 automatic while they were hunting for Easter eggs (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España)

Please turn me on I'm Mister Coffee with an automatic drip (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

Some broads got a automatic thickness for it (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

Bad planning on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part. (references; author: unknown)

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons! (references; author: unknown)

The Automatic Radio Compass: Part II (1957)

Automatic Piano (1897)

Demonstrating the Action of an Automatic Piano (1897)

Automatic (performing artist: The Pointer Sisters)

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References

• Automatic Data Processing, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Office Machines and Automatic Data Processing Equipment in Oceana (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Automatic Dishwashing Products in Latin America (reference)

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Books

• Chilton's Automatic Transmissions/Transaxles: Diagnosis and Repair (New Total Service Series) (reference)

• Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments (reference)

• Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management (reference)

• Genetic Programming : An Introduction : On the Automatic Evolution of Computer Programs and Its Applications (reference)

• How to Do Automatic Writing (Llewellyn's 'How-To' Vanguard) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Automatic Control And Computer Sciences (reference)

• Automatic Machining (reference)

• Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors Association Membership (reference)

• Ieee Transactions On Automatic Control (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bob Mann's Automatic Golf Dvd 1 (reference)

• Automatic (reference)

• Bob Mann's Automatic Golf: The Method (reference)

• Rebuilding Your Automatic Transmission (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody (reference)

• Automatic Writing (reference)

• Automatic (reference)

• Automatic for the People (reference)

• Super Automatic (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Kodak Gear Automatic Flash (reference)

• Mad Catz Automatic RF Adapter (reference)

• Nyko Universal Automatic Game A/C Adaptor (Universal) (reference)

• SMART MUVEE AUTOMATIC DIGITAL (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Capresso 152.04 C1000 Automatic Coffee and Espresso Center (reference)

• CST/Berger 55-PLVP26D 26X Automatic Level Package (reference)

• Nikon AX-2S 20X Automatic Level Package with Stadia (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is an automatic spinning device to mix tissue culture medium. Tissue culture medium provides nourishment to growing cells. In some of the slides, the hand of the scientist is visible. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Automatic Digital Recording (ADR) tide gauge Punched aluminum backed paper tape every 6 minutes with stage of tide. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Portable automatic tide gauge at old Stone Wharf Tides party of Glendon Boothe. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Figure 46. Automatic Nansen and Ekman water sampling bottle developed by the Central Laboratory at Christiana by Doctor Vagn Ekman and Fridtjof Nansen. Left: descending. Right: ascending. This type of bottle was used by Nansen in 1910 on board the gunboat FRITHJOF and was used through many hundreds of meters of water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 47. Schematic drawing of the Nansen and Ekman automatic water sampling bottle as shown by V. W. Ekman in 1905. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 54. Pellet burette - this instrument was produced by the French chemist Henri Pellet. It uses the same principle as that of the Richter or Schmidt burette. It has an automatic zero level, in which the reactive reservoir is pressurized by a rubber bulb. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

An automatic picture transmission (APT) receiving antenna mounted on the top of the Weather Bureau National Weather Satellite Center. This was an eight-turn, helical, 14-foot long antenna. Credit: NOAA in Space.

TIROS VIII Automatic Picture Transmission Camera image of Baja California. In: "The Best of TIROS," NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, 1965. Credit: NOAA in Space.

A manual tracking 13 db heliz antenna designed to receive TIROS picture information from the Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) system. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Remote Automatic Weather System, August 1999, somewhere in Northern Nevada. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Tom picked up his automatic, pulled out the magazine and threw it into the brush, and he ejected the live shell from the chamber

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It controls automatic functions like breathing and heartbeat. (references)

To obtain this information you may view the results of the automatic search on Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. (references)

To give you the most up-to-date resources, information specialists at the clearinghouse created an automatic CHID search. (references)

Business

They must also have a 10 amp automatic limiting device. (references)

However, meeting E.U. standards and receiving certification will not be quick or automatic. (references)

Over 95 percent of Bulgaria's telephone subscribers can make automatic domestic long-distance calls. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malawi

The police subsequently fired automatic weapons in the air to control the crowd. (references)

United Kingdom

The Church of England (Anglican) and the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) have the status of state religions, although their status has come under increasing scrutiny, particularly because of automatic membership in the House of Lords for 26 senior church officials. (references)

Qatar

Muslims have the automatic right to inherit from their spouses; however non-Muslim spouses (invariably wives, since Muslim women cannot legally marry non-Muslims) do not inherit unless their spouse formally wills them a portion (up to one third of the total) of their estates. (references)

Economic History

India

No automatic approvals are allowed. (references)

Korea

Again, approval is virtually automatic. (references)

India

Proposals up to 49 percent are granted automatic approval. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

Bail hearings are not automatic. (references)

Cuba

Appeals in capital cases are automatic. (references)

Jordan

Appeals are automatic for cases involving the death penalty. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

These laws set automatic prison terms for multiple convictions of certain crimes. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Croat-dominated Glamoc, unknown persons shot at Serb returnees' houses and the Orthodox Monastery Veselinje with automatic weapons. (references)

Pakistan

On May 18, a vehicle carrying Saleem Qadri, the leader of the Sunni Tehrik Party, and seven others, was attacked by six men with automatic weapons. (references)

Political Economy

COLOMBIA

Likewise, automatic authorization for these funds was established. (references)

ITALY

The most important of these measures is the automatic import license for textiles. (references)

AUSTRALIA

The purpose of this regulation is to prevent tax evasion and money laundering; authorization is usually automatic. (references)

Political Rights

Tunisia

The 182-seat Chamber of Deputies does not function as a counterweight to the executive branch; rather, it serves as an arena in which the executive's legislative proposals are debated prior to virtually automatic approval. (references)

Nicaragua

In January 2000, the National Assembly approved constitutional amendments supported by the leadership of both the governing PLC and the opposition FSLN. Key elements of the legislation included a change in the requirements that a presidential candidate must meet to avoid a second-round runoff election; expansion of the Supreme Court from 12 to 16 judges; expansion of the CSE from 5 to 7 magistrates; an automatic assembly seat for the outgoing president; a requirement for a two-thirds majority vote in the assembly, rather than the previous qualified majority vote, to remove presidential immunity from prosecution; and the replacement of a single controller general with the a 5-person collegial body charged with investigating allegations of wrongdoing or financial malfeasance by government officials. (references)

Trade

West Bank

Permission to export is virtually automatic. (references)

Travel

Cyprus

More than 190 countries can be reached on a fully automatic direct dialing. (references)

Senegal

Some local banks operate Automatic Teller Machines, which handle MasterCard, Visa and Cirrus cards. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Fuel prices are regulated but subject to an automatic cost-based formula and range from 70 cents per liter for regular gasoline to 49 cents per liter for diesel fuel. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

The code calls for automatic recognition of a union if the Government has not acted on its application within 30 days. (references)

Kazakhstan

A collective bargaining law gives workers the right to join or form unions of their choosing and to stop the automatic dues deductions for the state unions. (references)

Ghana

In 1999 the Government began compensating extra duty hours only for overtime actually worked, in accordance with labor equity, rather than as an automatic salary supplement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Beginning with "automatic": automatic-only, automatic-pilot.

Ending with "automatic": fully-automatic.

Containing "automatic": Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, semi-automatic relay installation.

Albanian

automatizuar, automatik (automatical, coin-operated, mechanical, robot, submachine gunner), në mënyrë automatike (automatical), i vetvetishëm (automatical, instinctive, reflex, spontaneous, unstrained, unstudied). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلقائي (automatical, automatism, impulsive, involuntary, spontaneous, unprompted), ‏ذاتي الحركة (auto, automatical, automobile, self propelling), ‏أوتوماتيكي (automatical), ‏آلي الحركة (automatical), ‏آلة أوتوماتيكية (automatical). (various references)

Basque

kutxazaina (Automatic Teller Machine). (various references)

Bulgarian 

машинален (automatical, involuntary, mechanical), автоматически (automatical), автоматичен (auto, automatical, mechanical, robot, self acting), автоматизиран (automatical). (various references)

Catalan

automàtic. (various references)

Chinese 

自动 (Automatical, self-acting), 自動 . (various references)

Czech

automatický (automatical, unmanned), samoèinný (self acting). (various references)

Danish

automatisk. (various references)

Dutch

automatisch (automatically), zelfwerkend. (various references)

Esperanto

aŭtomata. (various references)

Farsi 

مربوطبه ماشینهای خودکار, غیرارادی (Involuntary), خودکار, دستگاه خودکار (Robot). (various references)

Finnish

automaattinen. (various references)

French

automatique. (various references)

Frisian

automatysk. (various references)

Galician

automático. (various references)

German

automatisch (automatical, automatically, machinable, machine-aided, self-acting), selbsttätig (independent, self acting), automatik (automatism). (various references)

Greek 

αυτόματοσ (self acting, spontaneous), αυτόματος, αυτόματο (automat, automaton), αυτοματικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

אוטומטי (self acting). (various references)

Hungarian

automata (automata, automatical, automaton, automoton), automatikus (automatical, self acting, self-service). (various references)

Indonesian

otomatis (automat). (various references)

Italian

automatico (automatical, machinable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自動的 , 自動 (self-motion), エンボス加工 (auction, audience, audience survey, audio, audiometer, audio-visual, audition, auditorium, Austin, Australia, Australopithecus, Austria, authentic, authority, authorization, authorize, auto, auto door, auto focus, auto parlor, auto player, auto show, autobacks, autobiography, autocamping, auto-changer, autocracy, autocross, automatic clutch, automatic control, automatic stop, automatic transmission, automatic tuning deck, auto-nurse, autopilot, auxin, custom-made, eau de Cologne, embossment, enlargement, enrich, haute couture, made-to-order, motorcycle race, motorcycle), OA, oak, oaks, oats, ocean, ocean race, oceanaut, Odin, office automation, office lady, ogre, OK, OL, old girl, orc, orchard, orchestra, orchestra box, order, order entry system, order made, ordinary, organdy, organization, organize, organizer, orgasm, orgy, orgy party, orthodox, ostrich). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

オートマチック , じどうてき, じどう (children, juvenile, self-motion). (various references)

Korean 

자동 (Automatical, automotive). (various references)

Manx

seyr-obbragh, gyn smooinaght (automatically). (various references)

Norwegian

automatisk. (various references)

Papiamen

outomátiko. (various references)

Pig Latin

automaticay.(various references)

Portuguese

automático (auto, automat, automatical, clock-work, self-acting, self-service). (various references)

Romanian

automat (automaton, mechanical, penny-in-the-slot, self acting, self-recording). (various references)

Russian 

автоматический (auto, automatical, machine-created, mechanical, robot, self acting, self-acting, typematic, unattended, unmanned, unstaffed, unwatched). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

automatski (automatical, push button). (various references)

Somali

lacag-bixiyahu (automatic teller). (various references)

Spanish

automático (automatical, automoton, pop up, self acting, snap, snap fastener). (various references)

Swedish

automatisk (locomobile, self acting), självverkande (self acting). (various references)

Thai

อัตโนมัติ (knee-jerk, self-acting). (various references)

Turkish

otomatik vitesli araba, otomatik tabanca, otomatik makine (automat), otomatik (robot, self acting, self-winding, servo-), otomatík</