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semi-automatics

semi-automatics is the plural of semi-automatic.

Meaning of semi-automatic

Noun

semi-automatic (plural semi-automatics)

  1. A semi-automatic firearm, especially such a pistol.
    • The Los Angeles ordinance covers semi-automatics with a detachable magazine of 20 rounds or more. As examples, it cited such weapons as the AR 15 assault rifles, Uzi assault rifles and carbines, Ingram Mac-10 and Mac-11 assault carbines, AK-47 assault rifles, Thompson carbines and all Avtomat...1989 February 8, Robert Reinhold, “LOS ANGELES BANS RAPID-FIRING GUNS”, in The New York Times
  2. A semi-automatic transmission.

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Questions about semi-automatics

What is semi-automatics the plural of?
Semi-automatics is the plural of semi-automatic.

Words near semi-automatics in the dictionary

  1. semi-automated
  2. semi-automatic
  3. semi-automatic transmission
  4. semi-automatic transmissions
  5. semi-automatically
  6. semi-automatics
  7. semi-autonomous
  8. semi-autonomously
  9. semi-autos
  10. Semi-Bantu
  11. semi-basement

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