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automatically

adverb (INDEPENDENTLY)
 
 
/ˌɔː.təˈmæt.ɪ.kəl.i/ US  /ˌɑː.t̬əˈmæt̬-/

Definition

B2 If a machine or device does something automatically, it does it independently, without human control: The camera adjusts the shutter speed automatically.Mechanical engineering
(Definition of automatically adverb (INDEPENDENTLY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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