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autodetecting

autodetecting is the present participle and gerund of autodetect.

Meaning of autodetect

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.

Questions about autodetecting

What is autodetecting the present participle and gerund of?
Autodetecting is the present participle and gerund of autodetect.

Words near autodetecting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autodetecting (page history and authors); autodetect (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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