Self-acting

Definition: Self-acting

Self-acting

Adjective

1. Designed to activate or move or regulate itself; "a self-activating sprinkler system".

Synonyms: Self-acting

Synonyms: self-activating (adj), self-moving (adj), self-regulating (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: automatic switch (public administration), mule (industry, meteorology & standards), mule spinner, mule spinning machine, selfacting mule, selfacting spinning mule, self-acting switch (public administration), selfacting twiner (industry), Whiting's gate (building & civil engineering, mechanical engineering), Whiting's self-acting waste weir gate.

Photo Album: Self-acting

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	New and Improved Self-Acting Earth Closet.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Self-acting

"Self-acting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-acting" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Self-acting

Language		Translations for "self-acting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		自动 (Automatic, Automatical). (various references)

Finnish		itsetoimiva (automatic). (various references)

German		automatisch (automatic, automatical, automatically, machinable, machine-aided). (various references)

Manx		obbraghey jeh hene. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-actingsay

Romanian		regulator automat (self-acting regulator). (various references)

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

Thai		อัตโนมัติ (automatic, knee-jerk). (various references)

Vietnamese		tự h� nh (self-propelled), tự động (self-propelled, spontaneous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Self-acting

Anagrams: Self-acting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-l-n-s-t"
	-2 letters: castling, catlings, cleating, clefting, faceting, fanciest, fatlings, feasting, feltings, finagles, gelatins, genitals, gestical, inflates, inflects, stealing.
	-3 letters: acetins, actings, aiglets, angelic, anglice, atingle, cagiest, cantles, casting, catling, catlins, ceasing, centals, cineast, clients, easting, eatings, elastic, elastin, elating, entails, facings, fainest, fancies, fascine, fasting, fatling, feasing, fecials, felting, fetials, fiances, finagle, finales, flanges.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-g-i-l-n-s-t"
	+2 letters: centrifugals.
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