单词 | automacy |
释义 | automacyn. Now rare. The quality, state, or condition of being automatic (in various senses); automaticity. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [noun] > unintentional or involuntary quality > automatic or mechanical quality mechanicalness1693 mechanicality1779 automatonism1820 automacy1847 automatism1857 automaticity1873 robotism1923 robotry1924 1847 A. Tulk tr. L. Oken Elements Physiophilos. iii. i. 319 That organ is irritable which can move itself without any other object than that of automacy or self-motion [Ger. welches sich bewegen kann ohne andern Zweck, als um sich zu bewegen]. 1882 Wigan in R. A. Proctor Nature Stud. 131 Human minds..performing by a sort of automacy all the ordinary functions. 1908 Med. Standard 31 617 Automacy of Respiration... Many authors ascribe to the respiratory center an automatic character similar to that usually ascribed to the heart muscles. 1922 Hispania 5 314 It is like trying to talk with a weight hung upon the tongue. Automacy is destroyed. 1995 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Dec. 24 Liverpool's problem may be that, despite exchanging runs and passes with automacy, the machine's main direction is too often sideways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1847 |
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