automatic pilot meaning

• Noun: automatic pilot  `otu'matik 'pIlut
  1. A cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness
     "she went about her chores on automatic pilot"; "too much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot"
     - autopilot 
  2. A navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course
     - autopilot, robot pilot

  Derived forms: automatic pilots

  Type of: device, unconsciousness

  Encyclopedia: Automatic pilot

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  [Architecture]
  

  See safety shutoff device.

• 
  [Business]
  noun [U]

  a device in an aircraft or a ship that keeps it on a fixed course without the need for a person to control it:

  The aircraft was set on automatic pilot.

  IDIOMS

  be on automatic pilot

  to do sth without thinking because you have done the same thing many times before:

  For the first hour at work I'm on automatic pilot.

• 
  [Electronics]
  An electronic device, often computer-controlled, that automatically keeps a ship, airplane, or space vehicle on course.
  

• Your swing will be on “ automatic pilot
• Meanwhile, it is also useful for automatic pilot design
• Radar and automatic pilots make maritime navigation less hazardous
• automatic pilot channel
• Design of breakdown diagnose fuzzy-expert system for shore-to-ship missile automatic pilot
• A certain part of my brain tissue stays on automatic pilot.
• Too much hoping that they could throw it into automatic pilot.
• You all know the answer : It is on automatic pilot.
• On the set she was on a kind of automatic pilot.
• Threats to diversity need not be put on such automatic pilot.

• "automatic pilot" meaning in Chinese: 【航空】自动驾驶仪。
• "automatic pilot" meaning in Japanese: 自動操縦（装置）｛じどう そうじゅう（そうち）｝
• "automatic pilot" meaning in Russian: 1) _ав. автопилот2) _мор. авторулевой, автоматическая сист...
• "automatic pilot" meaning in French: pilote automatique, dispositif commandant automatiquement ...