Operating or functioning through its own internal forces or power, without external influence or control; self-propelled or self-regulating.
Combines auto- (self) + dynamic (relating to force or power, from Greek dynamis). A rare technical term from engineering and physics dating to the early 20th century.
The term 'autodynamic' is almost obsolete, but it appears in early 1900s engineering texts describing machines that could regulate themselves—a conceptual ancestor to modern feedback systems and automation.
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