The phrase "automatic formula" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a formula or method is applied automatically without manual intervention, often in technical or mathematical discussions.
Example: "The software uses an automatic formula to calculate the results based on the input data."
Alternatives: "automated equation" or "self-operating formula".
Some of that compensation pool would be distributed according to an automatic formula that applies to every full-time Goldman employee worldwide, maid to managing director.
The most effective way to cut subsidies is to adopt a clear and automatic formula, cutting meddling politicians out of the process.
26 But as so often is the case, no one set of facts, no one collection of words or phrases, will provide an automatic formula for proper rulings on estoppel pleas.
Under the new plan, which will be financed out of the same $50 billion set aside in March from the Troubled Asset Relief Program for homeowner bailouts, mortgage lenders that sign up for the program will agree to an automatic formula for sharply reducing payments on the second mortgage for any customers who have modified their first mortgage.
Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause, the public interest lobbying group that supported the raise as long as it was coupled with the elimination of payments from private interests, said the real answer was an automatic formula of regular, modest pay increases.
He does not have some automatic plug-in formula for figuring out what day of the week a given date falls on.
Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Utah have all put their infrastructure budgets on a more sustainable path by writing automatic inflation adjustment formulas into their gas tax laws.
They also include technical fixes like aligning the automatic cost-of-living formula with reality.
Costs and benefits could be re-evaluated every year, but it is sometimes easier to set a formula for automatic updating — guessing, in effect, how the optimal policy will change over time.
On May 6, Ervin offered an amendment to abolish the coverage formula's automatic trigger and instead allow federal judges to appoint federal examiners to administer voter registration.
TRANSMISSIONS, and the people who shifted them, once followed a simple formula: manual or automatic.
