Autocorrect
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Autocorrect is a verb meaning (transitive) To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
Meaning
(transitive) To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
More Meanings
- (computing) A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
Example Sentences
But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.
Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.
In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.
Word Forms
- autocorrects
- autocorrecting
- autocorrected
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include self-correcting, auto, correctify, autoadjust, corrigate, rectify.
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