Automatic vs Autonomic - What's the difference?
automatic | autonomic |
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.
Acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.
Pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.
As adjectives the difference between automatic and autonomic
is that automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention while autonomic is acting or occurring involuntarily, without conscious control.As a noun automatic
is a car with automatic transmission.automatic
English
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 .