autodetection
nounEtymology From auto- + detection.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences automatic detection
- Thus the onset of "autodetection" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.1972, Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics, volume 17, page 1588:
- Exclude as many hardware types and items from autodetection as possible. If autodetection crashes, run Setup again and exclude more items from autodetection.1996, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit:
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- As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.2000, Nicholas Wells, Guide to Linux Installation and Administration, volume 1, page 83:
- This allowed us to engineer a network protocol for iTap that both supports autodetection and works with Windows as well as Mac OS X.2010, David Mark, iPhone Advanced Projects, page 275:
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