adj.
   - (of a device or process) working by itself with little or no direct human control. ▸(of a firearm) self-loading and able to fire continuously. 
- done or occurring without conscious thought.
- (of a penalty or legal sanction) necessary and inevitable, as a result of a fixed rule or particular set of circumstances.
n.
 an automatic machine or device.
Derivative
  
    - automatically adv.
- automaticity n.
- automatization
 or automatisation n.
- automatize
 or automatise v.
 
  Etymology
  C18: from Gk automatos (see automaton) + -ic.