automatic
/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪk/ adjective A2- Capable of operating without external control or intervention. · The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought. · The reaction was automatic: flight!· Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc. · Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
- Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- 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).
- Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- Having one or more finite-state automata.
Superlative dubious
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The double valves with the automatic self-adjusting slots are drawn in one of the papers which have been returned.
Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.
Marilla looked dubious for a moment.
For the next sixty-nine evenings he would be dining in cheviot and worsted at dubious _table d’hôtes_, at whirlwind lunch counters, on sandwiches and beer in his hall-bedroom.
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