Vocabulary : Autokinetic to Automaton

Autokinetic : Self-moving; moving automatically.
Autokinetic system : In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
Autolatry : Self-worship.
Automata : of Automaton
Automath : One who is self-taught.

Automatic : Alt. of Automatical
Automatical : Having an inherent power of action or motion. ;; 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. ;; Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions.
Automatically : In an automatic manner.
Automatism : The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. (Metaph.) A theory as to the activity of matter.
Automaton : Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. ;; A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

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