AUTO

Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

Example: "The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device."

Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

Example: "Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art."

Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

Example: "Spitting at another player means an automatic red card."

(of a firearm such as a machine gun) firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

Example: "Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the us, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies."

(of a handgun) 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.

Example: "The us army adopted john browning's m1911 pistol as its sidearm, chambered in .45 acp (automatic colt pistol)."

(of a local variable) automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.

(of a group) having one or more finite-state automata