# automatic
## English
### Alternative forms

* automatick (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French automatique, from Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from αὐτός (autós, “self, myself”) + μέμαα (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/
* (US) IPA: /ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɔː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
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* (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA: /ˌɑː.təˈmæt.ɪk/, [ˌɑː.ɾəˈmæɾ.ɪk]
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˌoː.təˈmæt.ɪk/
* Rhymes: -ætɪk
* Hyphenation: au‧to‧mat‧ic

### Adjective

automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic) (superlative dubious)
* Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    Synonym: self-operating
    Antonyms: manual, non-automatic
    The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
* Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless
    Antonym: voluntary
    The reaction was automatic: flight!
    Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
** 2021 November 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 10, 2021:"I don't know why! Sometimes I feel like a girl! Sometimes a guy! I don't know why I feel that way! I just do! Always have! I can't remember not feeling this way! How do you explain something as natural and automatic to you as breathing?!"
* Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
    Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
* (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
    Coordinate terms: semi-automatic, burst mode, selective action, bolt action, lever action, (single-round per loading/chambering action) pump action
    Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.
* (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).
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:From a little hand-bag he extracted his automatic pistol, which he put upon the mantelpiece.
* (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
* (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.

#### Derived terms

* automagic
* automatical
* automatically
* automatic data processing machine
* automatic differentiation
* automatic distance control
* automatic half-barrier level crossing
* automaticity
* automatic leveling system
* automaticness
* automatic pencil
* automatic pilot
* automatic rifle
* automatic summarization
* automatic teller
* automatic teller machine
* automatic transmission
* automatic writing
* automatist
* biautomatic
* fully-automatic
* fully automatic time
* Instamatic
* laundromat
* manumatic
* nonautomatic
* -o-matic
* pseudoautomatic
* section automatic weapon
* semi-automatic
* semi-automatic transmission
* squad automatic weapon
* superautomatic
* teleautomatic

#### Related terms

* automagical
* automat
* automation
* automatization
* automatize
* automaton
* automobile
* autopilot

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: automatik
* → Malay: automatik
* → Pohnpeian: audomadik

#### Translations

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### Noun

automatic (plural automatics)
* A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
    Antonyms: manual, manual transmission, standard transmission, stick, stickshift, stick shift
    I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
* A semi-automatic pistol.
    Coordinate term: revolver
    The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns.
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:"I told him that if my automatic was not a spook-stopper, nothin' else would serve."
** 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 262:'The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.'

#### See also

(automotive):
* semi-automatic
* manumatic
* manual

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French automatique. By surface analysis, automat +‎ -ic.

### Adjective

automatic m or n (feminine singular automatică, masculine plural automatici, feminine and neuter plural automatice)
* automatic