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a.i.

a.i. adverb: in or for the meantime; temporarily.

Adverb

a.i. (not comparable)

  1. (initialism) In or for the meantime; temporarily.

Noun capitalized: A.I.

A.I. (countable and uncountable, plural A.I.s)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of AI.
    • The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Geth Codex entry
    • I first met Woebot, my A.I. chatbot therapist, at the height of the pandemic.2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2022

Forms of a.i.

Adverb
alternative forma. i.
Noun
pluralA.I.s

Origin of a.i.

From Latin a. i., an abbreviation of ad interim.

Questions about a.i.

What does a.i. mean?
A.i. means in or for the meantime; temporarily.
What part of speech is a.i.?
A.i. can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near a.i. in the dictionary

  1. A.E.F.
  2. a.e.t.
  3. A.G.
  4. A.G.I.
  5. A.H.
  6. a.i.
  7. A.I.s
  8. a.k.a.
  9. a.l.
  10. A.L.J.
  11. a.m.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: a.i. (page history and authors); A.I. (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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