automatic
- Adjective. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Adjective. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Adjective. (context, of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- Adjective. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- Noun. A car with automatic transmission.
- Noun. A semi-automatic firearm.
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