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autoreference

noun

Etymology

From auto- + reference.

  1. derived from referentia
  2. borrowed from référence
  3. prefixed as autoreference — “auto + reference”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of self-reference.

    • In order to keep the generic autoreferences, the plot was changed from the writing of a novel into the making of a film, the main character not being a writer-narrator, but a film director.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autoreference. 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