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semiautomatically
Variant of semiautomatic
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 adverb
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