Autodetect

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To detect automatically. transitive

    "The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually."

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"The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually."

Etymology

From auto- + detect.

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