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autorefresh

autorefresh noun: any feature that automatically refreshes a screen display.

Noun

autorefresh (uncountable)

  1. Any feature that automatically refreshes a screen display.
    • Like Paradox and dBASE, Clarion offers an autorefresh facility so data displayed on your screen will be updated if its associated records are changed in the database by another user.1991, PC Magazine, volume 10, numbers 9-10
    • One drawback of the console, though, was its lack of an autorefresh; it had to be updated often to display the current status information.2005, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 14

Origin of autorefresh

From auto- + refresh.

Questions about autorefresh

What does autorefresh mean?
Autorefresh means any feature that automatically refreshes a screen display.
What part of speech is autorefresh?
Autorefresh is a noun.

Words near autorefresh in the dictionary

  1. autorefractometers
  2. autorefractometric
  3. autorefractometry
  4. autorefractor
  5. autorefractors
  6. autorefresh
  7. autorefrigerated
  8. autorefrigeration
  9. autoregenerate
  10. autoregeneration
  11. autoregenerative

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