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An automobile.

Example: My brother is an auto mechanic.

A setting for automatic operation.

Example: Put it on auto.

An automatic gearbox / transmission.

Example: A body coloured centre pillar signalled the arrival of an electronic four-speed auto, slight suspension revisions and minor trim changes.

A car with an automatic gearbox / transmission.

Example: It wasn't too bad but we did hire an auto (couldn't imagine changing gears with my right hand).

To travel by automobile.

Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

Example: The automatic clothes washer was a great labor-saving device.

Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

Example: Absent-minded doodling is a form of automatic art.

Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

Example: Spitting at another player means an automatic red card.

(of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

Example: Fully automatic weapons cannot be legally owned by private citizens in the US, except in very special circumstances, as by private security companies.

An autorickshaw.

Example: ... users are often unable to note down the number of the taxi or the auto as the driver will just zoom past.