automatic transmission

1. 1.

   a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car

   Synonymsautomatic drive

   Broadertransmission

Questions about automatic transmission

What does automatic transmission mean?

automatic transmission means "a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car".

What is another word for automatic transmission?

Close synonyms include automatic drive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is automatic transmission a common word?

automatic transmission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.