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semiautomatic
semiautomatic definition
semi·au·to·matic (-ôt′ə mat′ik)
adjective
- partly automatic and partly hand-controlled: said of machinery
- Firearms using the force of the explosion of a shell to eject and reload cartridges, as in an automatic, but requiring a trigger pull for each round fired
noun
a semiautomatic firearm
Related Forms:
- semiautomatically sem′i·au′·to·mat′i·cally adverb
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