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autodetection

autodetection noun: automatic detection.

Noun

autodetection (uncountable)

  1. automatic detection
    • Thus the onset of "autodetection" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.1972, Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics, volume 17, page 1588
    • Exclude as many hardware types and items from autodetection as possible. If autodetection crashes, run Setup again and exclude more items from autodetection.1996, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit

Examples of autodetection in a sentence

  • As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.2000, Nicholas Wells, Guide to Linux Installation and Administration, volume 1, page 83:
  • This allowed us to engineer a network protocol for iTap that both supports autodetection and works with Windows as well as Mac OS X.2010, David Mark, iPhone Advanced Projects, page 275:

Origin of autodetection

From auto- + detection.

Questions about autodetection

What does autodetection mean?
Autodetection means automatic detection.
How do you use autodetection in a sentence?
As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.
What part of speech is autodetection?
Autodetection is a noun.

Words near autodetection in the dictionary

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

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