English-Spanish translations for automatic

• automático
  No obstante, no es un proceso automático. However, this is not an automatic process.
  Esto supondría un visado cultural automático. That would mean an automatic cultural visa.
  Sin embargo, yo no estoy de acuerdo con el mecanismo automático. However, I do not agree with the automatic mechanism.
• semi-automática

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