Defn: An automobile vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.
AUTOMOBILISM
Au`to*mo"bil*ism, n.
Defn: The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. — Au`to*mo"bil*ist, n.
AUTOMORPHIC
Au`to*mor"phic, a. Etym: [Auto- + Gr.
Defn: Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, — is automorphic. H. Spenser.
AUTOMORPHISM
Au`to*mor"phism, n.
Defn: Automorphic characterization. H. Spenser.
AUTONOMASY
Au`to*nom"a*sy, n. Etym: [Auto- + Gr. antonomasia.] (Rhet.)
Defn: The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."
AUTONOMIC
Au`to*nom"ic, a.