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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Moving by itself or automatically (especially of a fixed object, illusorily, when stared at); relating to autokinesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, not-comparable
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History
From auto- + kinetic.
