self-executing
adjEtymology From self- + executing.
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Law Needing no legislation to enforce it.
- The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]2003, Ruben E. Agpalo, Statutory Construction, page 467:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.
- Downloadable software can be provided in several different formats. Some automatically install themselves, but others require manual procedures. A downloadable file typically is set up as a self-installing executable file, self-executing zip file, […]2005, June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts: Comprehensive, page 156:
- The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable.2007, Bill Stackpole, Patrick Hanrion, Software Deployment, Updating, and Patching, page 310: