autocorrect
A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generatedA software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
» I am so single that even my phone autocorrects ‘dating’ to ‘eating’.
Я настолько одинок, что даже мой телефон автоматически исправляет «свидание» на «еду». — dimitris
dimitris · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
автоисправлениеavtoispravlenije
- a system for automatically correcting text
Examples
3 sentencesI am so single that even my phone autocorrects ‘dating’ to ‘eating’.
ruЯ настолько одинок, что даже мой телефон автоматически исправляет «свидание» на «еду». — dimitris
The email editor incorrectly autocorrected the word "Nadya" to "Nadia".
Autocorrect? More like autoincorrect.
deAutokorrektur? Wohl eher Autoinkorrektur. — Naina
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From auto- + correct.From auto- + correct.
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Forms
plural: autocorrects| Singular | autocorrect |
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regular
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.