The irrigation system uses automatic timers to water the greenhouse crops at precise intervals, reducing water waste by nearly a third.
灌溉系统使用自动定时器在精确的时间间隔内给温室作物浇水，减少了近三分之一的用水浪费。
Political scientist Marisol Vega argues that automatic voter registration increases overall turnout by removing a key administrative barrier to voting.
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Political scientist Grant Whitfield counters that automatic registration can also add many disengaged, unmotivated voters to the rolls whose actual turnout rate is far lower than that of voluntarily registered voters, potentially diluting turnout statistics without meaningfully increasing genuine civic participation.
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Which choice best defines “automatic”?
A — Working by itself with little or no direct human control. “automatic” means working by itself with little or no direct human control.
Which word means “working by itself with little or no direct human control”?
B — automatic. “automatic” means working by itself with little or no direct human control.
automatic — working by itself with little or no direct human control. In Chinese: 自动的.
automatic is pronounced /ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk/.
The irrigation system uses automatic timers to water the greenhouse crops at precise intervals, reducing water waste by nearly a third. (灌溉系统使用自动定时器在精确的时间间隔内给温室作物浇水，减少了近三分之一的用水浪费。)
self-acting, mechanical, automated — all close in meaning to automatic (working by itself with little or no direct human control).
manual, hand-operated — each the opposite of automatic (working by itself with little or no direct human control).
Yes. automatic is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.