autovivify

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Etymology

From auto- +‎ vivify.

Verb

autovivify (third-person singular simple present autovivifies, present participle autovivifying, simple past and past participle autovivified)

  1. (programming) In the Perl programming language, to create an array or hash automatically when a previously undefined value is dereferenced.