autonumber

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From auto- + number.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An automatically generated number.

Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix. Prefixes have a maximum length of three and are used for all system-generated numbers for the selected record type.2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook:

verb

Etymology From auto- + number.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To number automatically.

Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102:

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