Kind of rifle or pistol

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.