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Automatic vs Manumatic - What's the difference?

automatic | manumatic |

As adjectives the difference between automatic and manumatic

is that automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention while manumatic is describing any of several forms of motor car transmission that have both manual and automatic features.

As a noun automatic

is a car with automatic transmission.

automatic

English

Alternative forms

* automatick

Adjective

(-)
  • 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!
  • (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
  • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
  • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.
  • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

    manumatic

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia manumatic) (-)
  • Describing any of several forms of motor car transmission that have both manual and automatic features