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autofill

noun

Etymology

From auto- + fill.

  1. derived from *pl̥h₁nós✻ — “full”
  2. inherited from *fullijaną✻ — “to make full, fill”
  3. inherited from *fullijan✻
  4. inherited from fyllan — “to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”
  5. inherited from fillen
  6. formed as autofill — “auto- + fill”

Definitions

  1. Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.)…

    Any software feature that fills in (fields of a form, cells of a spreadsheet, etc.) automatically.

  2. To fill by autofill.

    • If you type in "couns", it autofills to "counseling".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autofill. 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