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Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
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Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
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Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
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(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
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(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.
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(programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
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(mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.