Automatic vs Auton - What's the difference?
automatic | auton | Related terms |
Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
(computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
(maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
A car with automatic transmission.
A semi-automatic firearm.
(science fiction) A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
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Automatic is a related term of auton.
As nouns the difference between automatic and auton
is that automatic is a car with automatic transmission while auton is (science fiction) a machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.As an adjective automatic
is capable of operating without external control or intervention.automatic
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Alternative forms
* automatickAdjective
(-)- The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
- The reaction was automatic : flight!
Synonyms
* (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctiveAntonyms
* (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntaryDerived terms
* automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automaticalNoun
(en noun)- I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
Antonyms
* (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmissionauton
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Noun
(en noun)- Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.
- "The Metrologan Order built the auton that was Ninth. How can you be so sure that she was not so well crafted that she really did have her own will?"
- Juan made seven attempts to pervert the auton'. One involved twelve hundred years of careful observation, timing the failure of various subsystems, maneuvering the ' auton into a position where he might take control and get transportation to resources in near space.