automatically
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
automatic/ɔːtəˈmatɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 (of a device or process) working by itself with little or no direct human control.
■ (of a firearm) self-loading and able to fire continuously.
- 2 done or occurring without conscious thought.
- 3 (of a penalty or legal sanction) necessary and inevitable, as a result of a fixed rule or particular set of circumstances.
– derivatives
automatically adverb,
automaticity noun,
automatization (or automatisation) noun,
automatize (or automatise) verb.
automatically adverb,
automaticity noun,
automatization (or automatisation) noun,
automatize (or automatise) verb.
'automatically' also found in these Oxford entries:
active
- adware
- assault rifle
- autodial
- auto-exposure
- autofocus
- automated teller machine
- automatic
- autosave
- ballcock
- car wash
- CGI
- courtesy light
- cut
- cut-out
- default
- dialler
- DNS
- droid
- garbage collector
- governor
- humidistat
- index
- interrogate
- interrupter
- jukebox
- kill file
- macro
- magazine
- pianola
- player piano
- register
- revolving credit
- robot
- rubber stamp
- safety valve
- self-cancelling
- self-destruct
- self-feeder
- self-loading
- self-sealing
- snap-lock
- stopword
- taximeter
- telltale
- thermostat
- time
- time out
- time switch
- traffic lights
