non-automatic

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ automatic.

Adjective

non-automatic (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of nonautomatic.
   • 1964 March, “Train braking - the next steps”, in Modern Railways, page 186:

     And they had to be automatic (after several disasters with non-automatic systems) so that a brake failure or breakage of the coupling would not leave the train without reasonable brakes.

References

• “non-automatic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

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