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AUTOMATICALLY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a reflex manner

Example:

he answered automatically

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

automatic (without volition or conscious control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

Example:

this door opens mechanically

Synonyms:

automatically; mechanically

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

automatic (resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine)

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 Context examples: 

He crossed no more hills or divides, but automatically followed a large stream which flowed through a wide and shallow valley.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This work—part of the wider research field of smart cities—would enable roads to signal to scooters when to slow down, for example, or could automatically cut off the electric motor or engine in case of danger.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

A mechanical, electrical, or chemical device with sensor properties, that automatically identifies and records or registers a stimulus, such as change in pressure or temperature or content, movement, an electrical signal, radiation from a radioactive material or presence of subatomic particles, etc.

(Detector, NCI Thesaurus)

Robot scientist Eve was developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth, and Cambridge to automate – and hence speed up – the drug discovery process by automatically developing and testing hypotheses to explain observations, run experiments using laboratory robotics, interpret the results to amend their hypotheses, and then repeat the cycle, automating high-throughput hypothesis-led research.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

We expected the beach to lift up this way and that, and the rocky walls to swing back and forth like the sides of a ship; and when we braced ourselves, automatically, for these various expected movements, their non-occurrence quite overcame our equilibrium.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Also, when his secret glance went across to Norman opposite him, or to any one else, to ascertain just what knife or fork was to be used in any particular occasion, that person's features were seized upon by his mind, which automatically strove to appraise them and to divine what they were—all in relation to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Automatically, his eyes were adjusting themselves to the brightness, focusing themselves to meet the increased distance of objects.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Automatically, her first act had been to set the coffee-pot back.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This study, which is part of the wider smart cities research field, would enable roads to signal to scooters when to slow down, for example, or could automatically cut off the electric motor or engine in case of danger.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

Before that he had recoiled automatically from hurt, as he had crawled automatically toward the light.

(White Fang, by Jack London)