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Ubiquitous vs Automatic - What's the difference?

ubiquitous | automatic |

As adjectives the difference between ubiquitous and automatic

is that ubiquitous is being everywhere at once: omnipresent while automatic is capable of operating without external control or intervention.

As a noun automatic is

a car with automatic transmission.

ubiquitous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
    • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.

    • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    Related terms

    * ubiquarian * ubiquitin * ubiquity

    External links

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    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

    Related terms

    * automagical * automat * automaton * automation * automatization * automatize * automobile * autopilot

    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