automatic

Word family

au·to·mat·ic1 /ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk◂ $ ˌɒː-/ S3 AWL adjectiveadj

1 MACHINEan automatic machine is designed to work without needing someone to operate it for each part of a process 自动的，自动化的 → manual

an automatic weapon

自动武器

an automatic gearbox

自动变速箱

My camera is fully automatic.

我的照相机是全自动的。

2 ALWAYS/EVERY TIMEsomething that is automatic always happens as a result of something you have done, especially because of a rule or law 〔根据规定或法律〕必然发生的，自动的

Littering results in an automatic fine.

乱扔垃圾必然要罚款。

3 THINK ABOUTdone without thinking, especially because you have done the same thing many times before 不自觉的，无意识的，不假思索的

Practise the breathing techniques until they become automatic.

练习这些呼吸技巧直到成为无意识的动作。

Examples from the Corpus

automatic• Complexity is also a feature of those real-life markets in which convergence also is neither swift nor automatic.• It takes a while before this kind of work feels automatic.• Mode A is the identification mode, whilst Mode C is the automatic altitude reporting mode.• The fall led to a five-tenths automatic deduction, and each foot out of bounds counted one-tenth of a point.• Treacly piped music from inside slopped out each time the automatic doors opened.• a camera with automatic focus• Automatic lights had come on in various parts of the house.• A teacher's automatic reaction is to correct mistakes in language.• Elizabeth immediately flew into a rage - her automatic response to any kind of criticism.• The soldiers lay on the highway with their automatic rifles beside them.• An automatic scorecard tracks progress around the course.• The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.• The automatic transmission, an $ 815 stand-alone option in the tester, was nothing to brag about for smoothness of operation.• The Soviet Union, in preparation for manned landings, then concentrated on landing automatic unmanned spacecraft on the lunar surface.• The merit system replaced automatic yearly pay raises.

fully automatic• Honda also designed the four-wheel-drive system, which engages only when needed and is fully automatic.• If there was a drawback, it was the rate of fire on fully automatic.• Such control is often fully automatic.• This pump-house was fully automatic and the latest example of technological design.• After the war, semi-and fully automatic rifles were developed.• The Slotopal On-Line Analyser from Schloetter is for fully automatic titrations of plating bath constituents and other processes.• It had a spring suspension axle for which a fully automatic tracking axle system is also available.• Our fully automatic video cameras are so easy to use - just point the camera and press the record button!

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