ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Autocomplete

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Autocomplete is a verb meaning (computing) To complete automatically.

Meaning

(computing) To complete automatically.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include autoconfigure, autoformat, autocompile, autosuggest, autoload, autoclassify.

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