automatic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: automatic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for automatic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
automatic adj operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts" Antonym(s): manual resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" Synonym(s): automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike, robotic without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive" Synonym(s): automatic, reflex(a), reflexive n light machine gun [syn: automatic rifle, automatic, machine rifle] a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released Synonym(s): automatic pistol, automatic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Automatic \Au`tomat"ic\, Automatical \Au`tomat"ical\, 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.