WordNet
adj. designed to activate or move or regulate itself; "a self-activating sprinkler system" [syn: self-acting, self-moving, self-regulating]
Usage examples of "self-activating".
Within an important facility like the Surire hub, he reassured himself, there ought to be enough self-activating defense mechanisms to prevent any significant loss of life or serious damage.
Within seconds, self-activating switches buried deep in the matrix of the Ranglou unit reacted.
The neuroscience view considers that the brain and consciousness are self-organizing, self-activating systems which are central to all experience.
An appellation that sounded a little more dynamic—“ambulant self-activating protoplasm,” say—and less like the stuff you find when you reach deep into a clogged drain would almost certainly have earned these extraordinary entities a more immediate share of the attention they deserve, for slime molds are, make no mistake, among the most interesting organisms in nature.