autocomplete

Etymology

auto- + complete

verb

  1. (computing) To complete automatically.

noun

  1. (computing) 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. 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 2, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books

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