non-automatic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
non-automatic (not comparable)
- 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[edit]
- “non-automatic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.