self-executing

adj

Etymology

From self- + executing.

Definitions

  1. Needing no legislation to enforce it.

    • The general rule is that constitutional provisions are self-executing, except when the provisions themselves expressly require legislations to implement them […]
  2. Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included…

    Consisting of a complete executable package that takes some action with the included data, rather than a pure data file requiring some additional tool to read it.

    • The other commonly used method is a self-executing package where the installer and the update are bundled into a single executable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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