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self-encrypting

self-encrypting adjective: automatically encrypting data without user intervention.

Adjective

self-encrypting (not comparable)

  1. Automatically encrypting data without user intervention.
    • a self-encrypting hard disk

Origin of self-encrypting

From self- + encrypting.

Questions about self-encrypting

What does self-encrypting mean?
Self-encrypting means automatically encrypting data without user intervention.
What part of speech is self-encrypting?
Self-encrypting is an adjective.

Words near self-encrypting in the dictionary

  1. self-employee
  2. self-employees
  3. self-employment
  4. self-emptying
  5. self-enclosed
  6. self-encrypting
  7. self-energies
  8. self-energising
  9. self-energizing
  10. self-energy
  11. self-enforcing

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