self-correcting

or self-cor·rec·tive

[ self-kuh-rek-ting, self- ]

adjective

automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.

Origin of self-correcting

First recorded in 1935–40

Other words from self-correcting

self-cor·rec·tion, noun

Words Nearby self-correcting

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How to use self-correcting in a sentence

The story of Gliese 581g highlights how hard exoplanet-hunting is, and how science at its best is self-correcting.
The Exoplanet That Wasn’t There | Matthew R. Francis | July 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At least since the last world war, most of the developed world has lived with the idea that popular suffrage is self-correcting.
Obama: Pay Attention to Europe | Christopher Dickey | May 8, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
But this self-correcting motive was presently displaced by a motive of a different sort.
Felix Holt, The Radical | George Eliot
This is a system of six compound-bars self-correcting for temperature.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 | Various
"Miss Cora Dares," Pauline continued, with a self-correcting precision.
The Adventures of a Widow | Edgar Fawcett

British Dictionary definitions for self-correcting

self-correcting

adjective

capable of correcting itself without external aid

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