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autocorrect en · NOUN
Etymology
From auto- + correct.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.
2022 October 3, Dwitght Garner, “Anthony Bourdain’s New Biography: Light on Subtlety, Heavy on Grit”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
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Relateds
hypercorrection · autocomplete · Cupertino effect · spell checker
Translations (4)
ru автоисправление (Translations) · sv autokorrigering (Translations) · es corrector automático (Translations) · pl autokorekta (Translations)
autocorrect en · VERB
Etymology
From auto- + correct.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
The 50-year-old steel worker said he had meant to type Sawyers should win the "buffoon d'Or". He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".
2021 November 5, “Romaine Sawyers: Albion fan jailed for racist post loses appeal”, in BBC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2026:In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.
2006 Joseph Reinhardt and Josien Pluim, "Medical imaging 2006", Part 3The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.
2012, Margaret Mallet, The Primary English Encyclopedia, page 26:That is the angriest Lindsey Graham has been about a cellphone since his name got autocorrected to “Linty Grandma”. “Stupid phone! Luhn mah name, Ah am your bawss! Stupid! So duhmb!”.
2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
2011, Jeff Allen, Get Laid Or Die Trying: The Field Reports, page 212:
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