Usually means: Operating independently without human intervention.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. automatic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. automatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. automatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. automatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. automatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Automatic, automatic: Wordnik
  7. automatic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. automatic: Wiktionary
  9. automatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. automatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. automatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. automatic: Dictionary.com
  13. automatic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. automatic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Automatic (Amy Macdonald song), Automatic (Don Broco album), Automatic (Dweezil Zappa album), Automatic (Hikaru Utada song), Automatic (Jack Bruce album), Automatic (Kaskade album), Automatic (Miranda Lambert song), Automatic (Nicki Minaj song), Automatic (Pointer Sisters song), Automatic (Prince song), Automatic (Red Velvet song), Automatic (Sarah Whatmore song), Automatic (Sharpe & Numan album), Automatic (Utada Hikaru song), Automatic (VNV Nation album), Automatic (album), Automatic (band), Automatic (disambiguation), Automatic (song), Automatic, The Automatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Automatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. automatic: Rhymezone
  18. automatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. automatic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. automatic: Free Dictionary
  21. automatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. automatic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. automatic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. automatic: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Automatic (album), automatic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Automatic (album), automatic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. automatic: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. automatic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Automatic: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Automatic: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMATIC: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
adjective:  Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
adjective:  Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
adjective:  (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
noun:  A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
noun:  A semi-automatic pistol.

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