autodetect

present singular third person autodetects · participle present autodetecting · participle past autodetected · past autodetected

1. transitiveTo detect automatically.

   The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually.

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   system is in an un-failed state or an autodetected failed state

   1975, 1975 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing: Paris, France, June 18-20, 1975: Digest of Papers

   Alternatively, install Caldera Linux, which autodetects hardware better than any other Linux, or OpenBSD, which autodetects the best of the BSDs.

   1999, Carolyn P. Meinel, The happy hacker: a guide to (mostly) harmless computer hacking

   If you have an existing working directory that is in your IDEA project's source path, and you've enabled CVS for your project, IDEA autodetects these CVS control folders and begins using version control for those files immediately.

   2006, Duane K. Fields, IntelliJ IDEA in Action