HOW TO PRONOUNCE
automatic
/ˌɔtəˈmætɪk/
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Make “mat” stronger than the beginning.
The opening has a smaller beat, but the third syllable carries the main stress. Keep the last ik light and attached to the stressed part before it.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The doors are automatic.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does automatic mean?
adjective
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- Having one or more finite-state automata.
noun
- A car with an automatic transmission; the transmission itself.
- A semi-automatic pistol.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɔtəˈmætɪk/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Then Theron reached a groping hand out for his hat, and, rising, walked with a lifeless, automatic step to the door.
While on this subject it will not be amiss to add that Mr. Curtiss does not look kindly on automatic control.
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Habits are but ways of thinking and of acting which by reason of frequent repetition have become more or less automatic.
On his return to America after his first visit to Europe he engaged an ingenious workman to construct an automatic orator.
The automatic detonator is set in motion and the bomb released to explode approximately at the height to which it is set.