autocomplete

verb

Etymology

From auto- + complete.

  1. derived from *pleh₁- — “to fill
  2. derived from completus
  3. derived from complet
  4. inherited from compleet — “full, complete
  5. formed as autocomplete — “auto- + complete

Definitions

  1. To complete automatically.

  2. A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.

    • Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autocomplete. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA