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autoformatting

autoformatting is the present participle and gerund of autoformat.

Meaning of autoformat

Verb

autoformat (third-person singular simple present autoformats, present participle autoformatting, simple past and past participle autoformatted)

  1. (transitive) To format (a document, etc.) automatically.
  2. (transitive) To automatically prepare (a mass storage medium) for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process, without requiring a prompt from the user to do so.

Questions about autoformatting

What is autoformatting the present participle and gerund of?
Autoformatting is the present participle and gerund of autoformat.

Words near autoformatting in the dictionary

  1. autofocusses
  2. autofocussing
  3. autoformat
  4. autoformats
  5. autoformatted
  6. autoformatting
  7. autofragmentation
  8. autofrettage
  9. autofretted
  10. autofretting
  11. autofuse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autoformatting (page history and authors); autoformat (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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