automatic

English

/ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk/, /ˌɔtəˈmætɪk/

adj
Definitions
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
  • necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (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.
  • (computing) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths) Having one or more finite-state automata

Etymology

Borrowed from French automatique derived from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (think, stand out, stay, tower, mountain, stand still, mind, have in mind, project, remember, change, remain, rmemeber, small).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*men-

Gloss

think, stand out, stay, tower, mountain, stand still, mind, have in mind, project, remember, change, remain, rmemeber, small

Concept
Semantic Field

Cognition

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

楼, 塔

Emoji
💭 🤔

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