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autonumber

autonumber noun: an automatically generated number.

Noun

autonumber (plural autonumbers)

  1. An automatically generated number.
    • Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix. Prefixes have a maximum length of three and are used for all system-generated numbers for the selected record type.2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook

Verb

autonumber (third-person singular simple present autonumbers, present participle autonumbering, simple past and past participle autonumbered)

  1. (transitive) To number automatically.
    • Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102

Forms of autonumber

Noun
pluralautonumbers
Verb
third-person singular presentautonumbers
present participleautonumbering
past participleautonumbered
pastautonumbered

Origin of autonumber

From auto- + number.

Questions about autonumber

What does autonumber mean?
Autonumber means an automatically generated number.
What part of speech is autonumber?
Autonumber can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of autonumber?
The plural of autonumber is autonumbers.

Words near autonumber in the dictionary

  1. autonormalization
  2. autonosode
  3. autonosodes
  4. autonowashing
  5. autons
  6. autonumber
  7. autonumbered
  8. autonumbering
  9. autonumbers
  10. autonym
  11. autonymic

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