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self-acting

self-acting adjective: acting of or by itself.

Adjective

self-acting (not comparable)

  1. Acting of or by itself.
    • The door is fitted with a powerful spring and a feather-touch self-acting lock. It cannot be left unlocked unless you deliberately prop it open.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
    • On this railway there were three inclined planes of the self-acting type, the full wagons pulling up the empty.1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Fordell Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 188

self-acting meaning in Tamil and Odia

self-acting in Tamil

தானேதாக்குகின்ற

self-acting in Odia

self-acting
ସ୍ୱାଧୀନ swādhina

Origin of self-acting

From self- + acting.

Questions about self-acting

What does self-acting mean?
Self-acting means acting of or by itself.
What is self-acting in Tamil?
Self-acting in Tamil is தானேதாக்குகின்ற. See Self-acting meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-acting?
Self-acting is an adjective.

Words near self-acting in the dictionary

  1. self-acceptance
  2. self-access
  3. self-acclaimed
  4. self-accompanied
  5. self-acknowledgedly
  6. self-acting
  7. self-action
  8. self-activity
  9. self-actor
  10. self-actualisation
  11. self-actualise

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: self-acting (page history and authors); self-acting (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ସ୍ୱାଧୀନ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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