Synonyms of the word

self-regulating

• adj. Able to control itself.
• adj. Of an organization, establishing standards for itself rather than having them legislated for it by government.

automatic

• adj. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
• adj. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
• adj. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition…
• adj. (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other…
• adj. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of…
• adj. (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
• n. A car with automatic transmission.
• n. A semi-automatic firearm.

self-acting

• adj. Acting of or by itself.