automaticallyadverb
uk/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/ˌɑː.t̬əˈmæt̬.ɪ.kəl.i/automatically adverb (INDEPENDENTLY)
B2 If a machine or device does something automatically, it does it independently, without human control:
The camera adjusts the shutter speed automatically.
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- If you are continuing on an onward flight, your bags will be transferred automatically.
- The clock automatically readjusts when you enter a new time zone.
- The data is validated automatically by the computer after it has been entered.
- Does this camera wind on automatically?
- If the cabin depressurizes, oxygen masks will automatically drop down.
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Engineering - mechanical
- -engined
- artificer
- automatic
- automative
- hydraulic
- idle
- internal combustion engine
- mechanic
- mechanical
- mechanically
- octane
- octane number
- outboard motor
- strip
- tick
- tick over
- torque
- tune
- vane
- wheelbase
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automatically adverb (NOT CONSCIOUSLY)
B2 If you do something automatically, you do it without thinking about it:
I automatically put my hand out to catch it.
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Not expected or planned
- ad hoc
- ad hocism
- ad hockery
- ad lib
- ad-lib
- adventitious
- against (all) the odds/against all odds idiom
- explosive
- involuntary
- it's just one of those things idiom
- just like that idiom
- make sth up as you go along idiom
- muddle
- sharply
- spur
- summary
- unawares
- undreamed of
- unexpected
- unforeseen
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automatically adverb (CERTAINLY)
If something happens automatically, it happens as part of the normal process or system:
Employees who steal are dismissed automatically.
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Inevitable
- all roads lead to Rome idiom
- automatic
- be (only) a matter of time idiom
- be damned if you do and damned if you don't idiom
- be nothing for it idiom
- be part and parcel of sth idiom
- damned
- doom
- fate
- fated
- implacable
- inevitably
- inexorable
- it can't be helped idiom
- matter
- relentless
- remorseless
- seal
- unavoidable
- unstoppable
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