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autodetect

autodetect verb: to detect automatically.

Verb

autodetect (third-person singular simple present autodetects, present participle autodetecting, simple past and past participle autodetected)

  1. (transitive) To detect automatically.
    • The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually.
    • system is in an un-failed state or an autodetected failed state1975, 1975 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing: Paris, France, June 18-20, 1975: Digest of Papers

Forms of autodetect

third-person singular presentautodetects
present participleautodetecting
past participleautodetected
pastautodetected

Origin of autodetect

From auto- + detect.

Questions about autodetect

What does autodetect mean?
Autodetect means to detect automatically.
What part of speech is autodetect?
Autodetect is a verb.
What is the past tense of autodetect?
The past tense of autodetect is autodetected.

Words near autodetect in the dictionary

  1. autodestructing
  2. autodestruction
  3. autodestructive
  4. autodestructs
  5. autodetachment
  6. autodetect
  7. autodetected
  8. autodetecting
  9. autodetection
  10. autodetector
  11. autodetectors

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