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automatically

Done by itself, without human control.
You do not have to turn off my omputer. It will turn off automatically after two hours.
by Iwasinameeting July 12, 2017
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automabyss

automabyss

aw’-to-muh-bis’

noun

That time and place when and where, respectively, one realizes the futility of dealing with a computerized telephone attendant which answered and irreconcilably routed his call.

Word Origin and History for automabyss
October 19, 2017

automaton + abyss

automaton
noun
1610s, from Latin automaton (Suetonius), from Greek automaton, neuter of automatos "self-acting," from autos "self" + matos "thinking, animated, willing," from PIE *mn-to-, from root *men- "to think."

abyss
noun

late 14c., earlier abime (c.1300, from a form in Old French), from Late Latin abyssus "bottomless pit," from Greek abyssos (limne) "bottomless (pool)," from a- "without" + byssos "bottom," possibly related to bathos "depth."
After Sheila, the kindly, new department manager at The Home Depot in Rome, Georgia, helped me get a free replacement commode, I called The Home Depot’s toll-free telephone number to provide my positive feedback, but its answering machine was unable to route my call to either Starr, the kindly, helpful human I had spoken to yesterday at a different toll-free telephone number at The Home Depot, instead casting me into the automabyss, when I was unable to guess what the answering machine’s programmer had contrived and where my next keypad choice would take me during the six minutes of my life that I had lost, thanks to the power of The Home Depot.
by Bit Bucket October 25, 2017
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automatology

The scientific study of the actual behavior exhibited by machines and algorithms, particularly those with a degree of artificial intelligence (AI).
The Facebook algorithm's role in the 2016 election would be an interesting case-study for automatology.
by dirck May 19, 2018
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automautical

Having to do or pertaining to travel by land over a route accessible to and suitable for a typical, manually driven, automobile
As the crow files she was only two hundred miles away, but with the airports snowed in I was looking at three times in automautical miles.
by Old Ya Ka May 9, 2018
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automatic ender

A person in Fortnite that puts You in the “knocked down” stage in proceed to end your life. This could be done anytime, anywhere, and in any conditions you, your teammate or the ender is.
The rust lord is coming he’s a automatic ender.
Blue hat is a automatic ender.
by Fortniteplayer713 June 16, 2018
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automanclavia

Involuntary response to prove and then reprove a point grounded in zero fact.
We have to institutionalize our client because it suffers horribly from automanclavia
by Jutë August 11, 2018
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Automatic

(of a device or process) working by itself with little or no direct human control. HAS A SEPERATE DEFINITION THAN THE ONE USED TO DESCRIBE GUNS, BIJAN
This machine is automatic, and that doesnt make it a gun.
by Smart Professor Guy January 20, 2019
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