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autocorrecting

autocorrecting is the present participle and gerund of autocorrect.

Meaning of autocorrect

Verb

autocorrect (third-person singular simple present autocorrects, present participle autocorrecting, simple past and past participle autocorrected)

  1. (transitive) To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
    • 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.2006 Joseph Reinhardt and Josien Pluim, "Medical imaging 2006", Part 3

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Questions about autocorrecting

What is autocorrecting the present participle and gerund of?
Autocorrecting is the present participle and gerund of autocorrect.

Words near autocorrecting in the dictionary

  1. autocopulation
  2. autocopyist
  3. autocopyists
  4. autocorrect
  5. autocorrected
  6. autocorrecting
  7. autocorrection
  8. autocorrections
  9. autocorrective
  10. autocorrects
  11. autocorrelate

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