autocomplete
nounEtymology From auto- + complete.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
- Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
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