Autocorrect
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated. countable, uncountable
"Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility."
- 2 a system for automatically correcting text wordnet
Verb
- 1 To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically. transitive
"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."
Example
More examples"Autocorrect? More like autoincorrect."
Etymology
From auto- + correct.
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