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autosaves

autosaves is the plural of autosave.

autosaves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of autosave.

Meaning of autosave

Noun

autosave (countable and uncountable, plural autosaves)

  1. A software facility that saves an open document (or progress in a game, etc.) periodically to avoid the risk of data loss.
    • Thanks to autosave, I was able to recover most of my unsaved thesis after a power cut.
  2. (countable) A copy of a file or document saved automatically by such a facility.
    • Only the three most recent autosaves are preserved, to save disk space.

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Questions about autosaves

What is autosaves the plural of?
Autosaves is the plural of autosave.

Words near autosaves in the dictionary

  1. autosamplers
  2. autosampling
  3. autosarcophagy
  4. autosave
  5. autosaved
  6. autosaves
  7. autosaving
  8. autoscale
  9. autoscaled
  10. autoscaler
  11. autoscalers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autosaves (page history and authors); autosave (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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