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autopause

autopause noun: an automatic pause feature.

Noun

autopause (uncountable)

  1. An automatic pause feature.
    • The biggest change in the Core Location framework in iOS 6 has been on the inside. Still, there are a couple of changes in the API that are worth noting—for example, how to control the new autopause behavior of the location services […]2012, Shawn Grimes, Colin Francis, Hans-Eric Gronlund, iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 176

Origin of autopause

From auto- + pause.

Questions about autopause

What does autopause mean?
Autopause means an automatic pause feature.
What part of speech is autopause?
Autopause is a noun.

Words near autopause in the dictionary

  1. autopathography
  2. autopathy
  3. autopatrolled
  4. autopatroller
  5. autopatrollers
  6. autopause
  7. autopay
  8. autopayment
  9. autopayments
  10. autoped
  11. autopedophile

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