1.when funds are taken out of an account with the account holders approval. It is done on the date and for the amount agreed to without them having to do anything. 2. the time a computer places funds from one account to another to cover overdraft.


In medical jurisprudence, this term is applied to actions or conduct of an individual apparently occurring without will, purpose, or reasoned intention on his part; a condition sometimes observed in persons who, without being actually insane, suffer from an obscuration of the mental faculties, loss of volition or of memory, or kindred affections. “Ambulatory automatism” describes the pathological impulse to purposeless and irresponsible wanderings from place to place often characteristic of patients suffering from loss of memory with dissociation of personality.