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Definitions for semi-automatic
se·mi-au·to·mat·ic

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Wiktionary

  1. semi-automaticnoun

    A semi-automatic firearm, especially such a pistol.

  2. semi-automaticnoun

    A semi-automatic transmission

  3. semi-automaticadjective

    Partially automatic.

  4. semi-automaticadjective

    Of a firearm that automatically ejects a shell and loads the next one, but requires the trigger to be squeezed for each shot; autoloading.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of semi-automatic in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of semi-automatic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of semi-automatic in a Sentence

  1. Alvin Bragg:

    We have a time where we have both violence rising and incarceration, and the goal is to simultaneously reduce both, i had a shooting on my block a month ago, I've had a knife to my neck, I've had a semi-automatic weapon to my head, I know these issues intimately. So what we are doing is not working, plain and simple and this is our path forward. This is how we reduce violent crime the most.

  2. Dom Raso:

    Let me say something to every political hack pretending to know an AR-15 from a double-barrel shot gun, in the wake of the Orlando attack, for the vast major of people I work with, there is nothing better to defend their homes against realistic threats than with an AR-15 semi-automatic.

  3. Winston Calvert:

    The officers were not acting out of line at any time during the arrest. The person involved in this altercation had a semi-automatic gun, and the officers were protecting themselves and the public. They did what had to be done to protect themselves.

  4. Jack Levin:

    We have so many semi-automatic weapons that can be easily concealed, and taken from the home and used on classmates or whoever, the real problem in (the United States) has to do with handguns being in the hands of the wrong people. But you can't blame it all on guns. (The United States) leads the Western world in nongun homicides, too.

  5. Greg Bretzing:

    On at least two occasions, Finicum reaches his right hand toward a pocket ... on his jacket, he did have a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic handgun in that pocket.

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