autocomplete
English
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editautocomplete (third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted)
Related terms
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editcomplete automatically
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Noun
editautocomplete (uncountable)
- (computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
- 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
- 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.
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editfeature
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edit- autocomplete on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Galician
editVerb
editautocomplete
- inflection of autocompletar:
Portuguese
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editautocomplete
- inflection of autocompletar:
Spanish
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editautocomplete
- inflection of autocompletar: