autocorrection
Americannoun
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a software feature which automatically fixes spelling issues, incorrect word choices, etc.
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an instance of this software making such a change.
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correction of one's own mistakes.
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the natural correction of a medical disorder without intervention.
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It sets up an autocorrection algorithm, which chooses the most likely word to complete a passage based on laborious statistical analysis of hundreds of gigabytes of Internet text.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
Few had expected a fairly straightforward autocorrection algorithm to acquire such broad abilities.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
Being an old machine, there was no autocorrection.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2014
Google says that Docs already supported a few Markdown autocorrections for bulleted and numbered lists, and checkboxes.
From The Verge ● Mar. 29, 2022
These days, autocorrections are likely to tell the person on the receiving end something about you.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2015
Were I to lift the autocorrections, what remained would be completely unintelligible.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
My cellphone, an HTC One, is, as far as I can tell, especially awful when it comes to stupid autocorrections.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2014
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