automatic weapon

What does automatic weapon mean?

automatic weapon means "a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released".

What is another word for automatic weapon?

Close synonyms include automatic firearm, automatic gun. 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 weapon a common word?

automatic weapon 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for automatic weapon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.