automaticity
/aw-tuh-muh-tis-i-tee/US // ˌɔ tə məˈtɪs ɪ ti //
自动性,自动化,自动机,自动
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the quality or fact of being performed involuntarily or unconsciously, as a reflex, innate process, or ingrained habit: This online math program helps students achieve automaticity in the basic facts of addition and subtraction.
- : the fact or quality of starting or operating independently: In this historical drama, everything happens with the automaticity of clockwork, as if the ending has already been written.
Examples
But the drama that unfolds across their visages is indicative of automaticity rather than authenticity.
Similarly, all our experience in life tends to automaticity.
Without such exaggeration, America may justly claim the contribution of automaticity to the Machine of Civilization.
Not only is it true that repetition makes for automaticity, but intensity is also an aid.
The essence of automaticity is that mechanism at a certain, predetermined point in an operation shall perform a required act.
In the best modern types of engine this automaticity goes far indeed.
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