artillery heavy weapon gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
automatic choke | a choke that automatically controls the flow of air to the carburetor |
automatic firearm automatic gun automatic weapon | a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released |
automatic pistol automatic | a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released |
automatic rifle automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
automatic transmission automatic drive | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car |
autopilot automatic pilot robot pilot | a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course |
bioweapon biological weapon bioarm | any weapon usable in biological warfare, they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon |
Browning automatic rifle BAR | a portable . caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine, used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War |
cash machine cash dispenser automated teller machine automatic teller machine automated teller automatic teller ATM | an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used |
chemical weapon | chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants |
computer system computing system automatic data processing system ADP system ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
nuclear weapon atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
washer automatic washer washing machine | a home appliance for washing clothes and linens automatically |
weapon arm weapon system | any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting, he was licensed to carry a weapon |
weapon of mass destruction WMD W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
automatic pilot autopilot | a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness, she went about her chores on automatic pilot, too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot, she talked and he dozed and my mind went on autopilot |
face recognition facial recognition automatic face recognition | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces, they used face recognition to spot known terrorists |
weapon artillery | a means of persuading or arguing, he used all his conversational weapons |
automatic data processing ADP | data processing by a computer |
weapons plutonium weapon-grade plutonium | plutonium that is recovered when nuclear weapons are disassembled, it is stored in plutonium pits |
automatic | operating with minimal human intervention, independent of external control, automatic transmission, a budget deficit that caused automatic spending cuts |
hand-operated non-automatic | operated by hand |
automatic automatonlike machinelike robotlike robotic | resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine, an automatic `thank you', machinelike efficiency |
automatic reflex(a) reflexive | without volition or conscious control, the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light, a reflex knee jerk, sneezing is reflexive |