auto-, aut- +

A morbid interest in ships or large bodies of water.

1. A reference to or affecting the entire autonomic (sympathetic and parasympathetic) nervous system.
2, The self-controlling, functionally independence, of the entire autonomic nervous system.

1. An apparatus for automatically recording the vibrations of sound, including the voice, by means of a membrane set in vibration by the sound-waves, and having a point attached which makes a tracing upon a revolving cylinder.
2. An instrument where by a sound can be made to produce a visible record of itself.

1. An organism that derives its energy exclusively from light and uses it to synthesize food.
2. Requiring only inorganic compounds for growth with carbon dioxide as the sole source of carbon (autotrophic) and deriving energy from photosynthesis; said of algae and certain photosynthetic bacteria.

Pertaining to an organism that produces its own food using inorganic materials and photosynthesis; such as, most plants.

Plants and other organisms that use photosynthesis as a source of nutrition.

An early name for lithography as applied to the production of numerous copies of autographs or original drawings.

A murder that is disguised as a suicide.

An image recorded on a photographic film or plate produced by the radiation emitted from a specimen; such as, a section of tissue, that has been treated or injected with a radioactively labeled isotope or which has absorbed or ingested such an isotope.

1. Partly automatic; an operation that is partly automatic and partly manual.
2. A reference to a firearm (rifle, pistol, etc.), automatically ejecting the cartridge case (spent shell) of a fired shot and loading the next cartridge from the magazine but requiring a squeeze of the trigger to fire each individual shot.

1. Partially self-governing; especially, with reference to internal affairs.
2. Having the powers of self-government within a larger organization or structure.
3. Ruled partly by its own citizens or rulers and partly by another country or region.

1. The quality or state of being semiautonomous.
2. A semiautonomous system of government.

A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc.

In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits.

In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves.

The transmission of writing or drawing such that the movements of the receiving pen copy those of the transmitting pen or pencil, yielding a facsimile reproduction at the receiving end. Also: telechirography.