automatic

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I've tried other schedules, but settled on 7 days as the last automatic mail.

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light machine gun

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of automatic gathered in one view.

noun

light machine gun

noun

a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

adjective

operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for automatic.

noun

light machine gun

noun

a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

adjective

operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control; "automatic transmission"; "a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts"

adjective

resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency"

adjective

without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"

Example sentences

I've tried other schedules, but settled on 7 days as the last automatic mail.

That's when I realized his work on automatic garbage collection had gone too far.

Branding is just the mental handle we use to talk about the automatic emotions we get.

To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops.

Zuckerberg seems to believe in "sharing and more sharing" [1] and automatic sharing.

This is just Google's form of semi-automatic due diligence.

It's the normal and automatic result of the creation of systems without appropriate checks and balances.

Their banks will hear "Internet merchant did not deliver as promised" and sustain the chargeback automatically.

I'm guessing this won't work as automatic for other providers?Edit2 - Just attempted with another friend and had to verify manually.

Such automatic evaluations are for managers who probably don't understand what they enforce.

An interesting feature that you couldn't replace is automatic translation: reading a russian blog asmit was written in english.

This is easily done because the automatic progression is inconsistent, so I've had to tab twice before getting to the year, and because it automatically moves me there, I end up on the CVV.

Javascript does automatic semicolon insertion by taking advantage of potentially ambiguous constructs that happen to be resolved in one way right now.

It means missing out on a certain class of submissions, but those are mostly a mess these days anyway because they get filled with people talking about the automatic title change and people confused about why the link was submitted and upvoted.

The automatic-authorization appears to only apply when it's between two previously validated parties.

I am all for the interconnected web, and making it easier for me to introduce my friends to new content across it, however it has to be done on my terms, it has to require explicit authorisation and must never do something automatically without my consent.