AUTOMATICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does automatically mean? 

• AUTOMATICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb AUTOMATICALLY has 2 senses:

1. in a reflex manner

2. in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

  Familiarity information: AUTOMATICALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOMATICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a reflex manner

Context example:

he answered automatically

Pertainym:

automatic (without volition or conscious control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

Synonyms:

automatically; mechanically

Context example:

this door opens mechanically

Pertainym:

automatic (resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine)

 Context examples 

When the brain is healthy, it works quickly and automatically.

(Brain Diseases, NIH)

The authors proposed that, in Caudipteryx, from a mechanical perspective, two-legged running automatically induced wing flapping.

(Scientific study suggests dinosaurs flapped their wings as they ran, Wikinews)

They have also developed software that automatically detects the “fingerprint” of each of these areas in an individual’s brain scans.

(Connectome map more than doubles human cortex’s known regions, NIH)

A machine for performing calculations automatically.

(Computer, NCI Thesaurus)

A device designed to automatically receive and store data and format it for later use.

(Data Acquisition Unit Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A switch designed to cut off power automatically to a moving object when it reaches a predetermined point.

(Limit Switch Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

In the body, involuntary actions (such as blushing) occur automatically, and cannot be controlled by choice.

(Involuntary, NCI Dictionary)

Experts published a research that suggests the human propensity for contagious yawning is triggered automatically by primitive reflexes in the primary motor cortex - an area of the brain responsible for motor function.

(Why Is Yawning so Contagious?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After the initial detections of the comet, Scout system, which is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, automatically flagged the object as possibly being interstellar.

(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)

As in the past he had bristled and snarled at sight of Lip-lip, so now, and automatically, he bristled and snarled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)