Automatically
[,ɔ:tə'mætɪklɪ]
Definition
(adv.) In an automatic manner.
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Examples
- Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No sooner does an article become extensively used than a machine is made for turning it out automatically. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In other words, the very faults that we noted in the negative, from a picture point of view, automatically right themselves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Air engines have been invented which can be used to either heat or cool the air, or do one or the other automatically. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These transplanters will dig the plant trench, distribute the fertiliser, set the plant, pack the earth and water the plant, automatically. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They cling to some arrangement, hoping against experience that a government freed from human nature will automatically produce human benefits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The meters commonly used measure the amperes, volts, and time automatically, and register the electric power supplied in watt hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The cloth was automatically shifted to correspond to the pattern to be produced, and thus was chain stitch embroidery first manufactured. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then he throws in the transmitting apparatus, which automatically disconnects the receiving end. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Every minute, she glanced automatically at the window. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His mind became dark, he went on automatically. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At last he turned, still resting against the chair, and stretching his hand automatically towards his hat, said with a sort of exasperation, Good-by. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Each slab is here automatically wrapped in wax and silver-foil papers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- McCormick was deep in a study of this matter when one day a man named James Withington came to him from Wisconsin, and announced that he had a machine that could automatically bind grain. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Here the material was automatically delivered to the giant rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The building was equipped in such a manner that the striking of the fire-alarm would light every lamp in the house automatically and liberate the horses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this way, the number of cubic feet of gas which pass through the meter is automatically registered. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He therefore planned a system by which the ten thousand bearings in the plant are oiled automatically; requiring the services of only two men for the entire work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The phonograph is in reality a development of the phonautograph, which was an instrument invented by Leon Scott in 1857 to automatically record sounds by diagrams. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Spaulding took out patent No. 103,673 for a binder which automatically regulated the bundles to a uniform size. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It performs automatically fifteen-sixteenths of the various movements which ordinarily would be performed by hand on a hand machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She also has a water line protection of cocoa fibre to automatically close up an opening made by a shot. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The proper length of wire is fed into the machine automatically, and the end is gripped by a set of jaws. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Such fire alarms can be exchanged automatically, or by operators, and are sometimes associated with a large fire-alarm bell or whistle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After full recoil, the gun is automatically returned to its forward position by the action of the coil springs, which are compressed during the recoil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In this, the relief blocks are replaced by engraved copper rolls which rotate continuously and in the course of their rotation automatically receive coloring matter on the engraved portion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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