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Automatic vs Autopayment - What's the difference?

automatic | autopayment |

As nouns the difference between automatic and autopayment

is that automatic is a car with automatic transmission while autopayment is automatic payment.

As an adjective automatic

is capable of operating without external control or intervention.

automatic

English

Alternative forms

* automatick

Adjective

(-)
  • Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
    • The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device
  • Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
    • The reaction was automatic : flight!
  • (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
  • (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
  • (maths, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

    • Synonyms

    * (without conscious thought) perfunctory, thoughtless, instinctive

    Antonyms

    * (capable of operating without external control) manual * (without conscious thought) voluntary

    Derived terms

    * automatically * automaticity * automatic transmission * automatical

    Related terms

    * automagical * automat * automaton * automation * automatization * automatize * automobile * autopilot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A car with automatic transmission.
    • I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic .
  • A semi-automatic firearm.

    • Antonyms

    * (car with automatic transmission) stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

    autopayment

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • automatic payment
  • * 2007 , Jay Conrad Levinson, Jeannie Levinson, Amy Levinson, Guerrilla marketing (page 61)
    • It's always a good idea to offer autopayment and autorenewal plans if people might buy your product or service on a repetitive basis. Their credit cards are automatically charged each month, simplifying life for both of you.
  • * 2008 , Great Britain: National Audit Office, Management of tax debt: report (page 25)
    • Large utility companies use autopayment , where callers can make payments using the telephone keypad rather than speaking to an operator.