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pseudoautomatic

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + automatic.

  1. derived from αὐτόματον
  2. derived from automatum — “automaton”
  3. borrowed from automaticus
  4. prefixed as pseudoautomatic — “pseudo + automatic”

Definitions

  1. Apparently, but not actually, automatic.

    • Even when the artist strives to distance himself from such choices, as, for example, when he attempts to use various pseudoautomatic devices or even a pseudoaccidental process, he merely narrows the range of choices […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoautomatic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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