Machinelike vs Automatic - What's the difference?
machinelike | automatic | Related terms |
Resembling a machine
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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.
Machinelike is a related term of automatic.
As adjectives the difference between machinelike and automatic
is that machinelike is resembling a machine while automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention.As a noun automatic is
a car with automatic transmission.machinelike
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation
Synonyms
*mechanicalautomatic
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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 .