Automatic vs Superautomatic - What's the difference?
automatic | superautomatic |
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.
(of a coffee machine) Having automatic features to grind the coffee, tamp it, and extract the espresso shot.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 11, author=James Kanter, title=European Officials Will Monitor Quality of the Espresso for Their Staffs, work=New York Times
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As adjectives the difference between automatic and superautomatic
is that automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention while superautomatic is (of a coffee machine) having automatic features to grind the coffee, tamp it, and extract the espresso shot.As a noun automatic
is a car with automatic transmission.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 transmissionsuperautomatic
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