📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- a. Having an inherent power of action or motion.
- a. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the
- nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed
- conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain
- things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or
- device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas
- lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.
- a. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical;
- as, automatic movements or functions.