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Light machine gun
Answer for the clue "Light machine gun ", 9 letters:
automatic
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Automatic Transportation Company of Buffalo, New York built an electric car in 1921. The car was a 2-seater with a wheelbase of 65in (1650mm), and a total length of 95in (2411mm). The Automatic had a top speed of 18 mph (29 kmh), and sold for $1200. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an automatic weapon (= an automatic gun ) ▪ He was shot 120 times with automatic weapons. automatic pilot ▪ Moving on automatic pilot, she tidied the room. automatic transmission COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"automatic weapon," 1902, from automatic (adj.). Meaning "motorized vehicle with automatic transmission" is from 1949.
Usage examples of automatic.
He was so antipathetic toward the way politics ran on this island that he carried a large-calibre automatic pistol holstered under his armpit.
His desk, unlike the others in the antrum, thrown together and wobbly, was an elaborate sectional apparatus with automatic drawers, a pop-up typewriter, modular shelving and a built-in pencil sharpener that operated on batteries.
The automatic safeguards flushed the entire contents of the bacterial sorting chamber out into space.
Somebody behind the barrera fired his 9mm automatic into the air and that really brought the house down.
It was a small Berretta automatic, aimed at a spot between Sandra and Nick.
Is that ship some kind of automatic weapon gone berserk, shooting around the Galaxy exterminating what it calls badlife?
Lath let loose with his automatic, raking the brushy edge of the clearing with a spray of bullets.
Millions of automatic processes can continue, but the exteroceptors go with me, leaving behind a shell which is only the body.
But where pollutants from humanplayer stay in pool, use chlorine donor to obtain efficient disinfectant residual: Sodium Hypochlorite dispensed via automatic dosing pump.
The same old processes of automatic selection between rival molecules by reason of their longevity, fecundity, and copying-fidelity, still go on as blindly and as inevitably as they did in the far-off days.
Each manjack consisted of an M-60F machine gun, the newest version of the venerable platoon automatic weapon that had first seen service in Vietnam, and a removable automated firing system.
In the truest fashion of every light weapon developed by a committee, the procurement system finally developed specifications for the manjacks that transformed them from the original concept of a light, relatively simple automatic weapon on an automated tripod, into a virtual mini-tank.
To this Marill attached a crude form of modem, operating at 2,000 bits per second, which he called an automatic dialer.
A heavy automatic gun, the sort the marshmen used to kill the big crocodilians whose back armor might deflect even the needles of a strakkaker.
The need to defend him as a messmate was automatic, and given what he truly thought of the man, quite convincing.