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autodetect en · VERB

Etymology

From auto- + detect.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To detect automatically.
   • If you have an existing working directory that is in your IDEA project's source path, and you've enabled CVS for your project, IDEA autodetects these CVS control folders and begins using version control for those files immediately. 2006, Duane K. Fields, IntelliJ IDEA in Action:
   • Alternatively, install Caldera Linux, which autodetects hardware better than any other Linux, or OpenBSD, which autodetects the best of the BSDs. 1999, Carolyn P. Meinel, The happy hacker: a guide to (mostly) harmless computer hacking:
   • system is in an un-failed state or an autodetected failed state 1975, 1975 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing: Paris, France, June 18-20, 1975: Digest of Papers:
   • The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually.

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