The AI-powered English dictionary
third-person singular simple present autocompletes, present participle autocompleting, simple past and past participle autocompleted
(computing) To complete automatically. examples
uncountable
(computing) A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. quotations examples
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