autosuggest

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English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ suggest.

Noun

autosuggest (uncountable)

  1. (computing) Any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.
    • 2015 September 2, “Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas: Opening Access to the Biology of Nuclear Receptor Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      Alternatively, an Amazon-like interface filters the list of molecules by specifying type (Nuclear receptor, coregulator, ligand) or by typing GO Terms or Diseases in autosuggest text boxes.

Verb

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

  1. (psychiatry) To suggest to oneself.
  2. (computing, transitive) To suggest automatically.
    I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".