autopilot.

1. A system that controls a vehicle’s movement or flight without continuous direct manual input.

2. A state of carrying out familiar actions with little deliberate attention.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• engage the autopilot
• autopilot mode

On the page

She disengaged the autopilot when the course changed.

The autopilot held altitude through the turbulence.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular autopilot; plural autopilots. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.