English-French translations for automatic

• automatique
  Deuxième question: est-il question d'un effet de «déclenchement automatique». Secondly, are we talking about an automatic trigger effect?
  Mais ce processus n'est pas automatique. However, this is not an automatic process.
  Cela veut dire un visa culturel automatique. That would mean an automatic cultural visa.
• semi-automatique
  Je pense que c'est une différence énorme, parce que le caractère semi-automatique des sanctions prévu par la proposition de la Commission est absent de la proposition de Deauville. I think that is an enormous difference, because the semi-automatic character of sanctions in the Commission proposal is not present in the Deauville proposal.
  Nous devons toutefois dire que la proposition du groupe de travail garde le caractère semi-automatique des sanctions et maintient la règle de la majorité inversée proposée par la Commission. However, we have to say that the task force proposal keeps the semi-automatic character of the sanctions and maintains the reverse majority rule that was proposed by the Commission.

Definition of automatic

• Capable of operating without external control or intervention
• Done out of habit or without conscious thought
• necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc
• Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted
• An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns
• Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls
• A car with automatic transmission
• A semi-automatic pistol

Examples

• The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.
• The reaction was automatic: flight!
• Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.
• Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.
• Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies
• The US Army adopted John Brownings M1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol
• I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.
• The G-men raiding the speakeasy were equipped with .45 automatics, while the local policemen were carrying revolvers and shotguns

Related words

• automatically
• semi-automatic
• semiautomatic
• automaticity
• semiautomatically
• automatician
• automatic fire
• automatic data processing
• automatic teller machine