autonumber

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noun

An automatically generated number.

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Meanings

nounautonumber (plural autonumbers)

plural autonumbers

  1. computingAn automatically generated number.

    Any autonumber has three parts: a fixed prefix, an incremental number, and a changing suffix. Prefixes have a maximum length of three and are used for all system-generated numbers for the selected record type.

    2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook
verbautonumber (third-person singular simple present autonumbers, present participle autonumbering, simple past and past participle autonumbered)

present singular third person autonumbers · participle present autonumbering · participle past autonumbered · past autonumbered

  1. transitivecomputingTo number automatically.

    Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?

    2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102

Origin

From auto- + number.

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Cite this entry
APA

autonumber. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autonumber

MLA

“autonumber.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autonumber. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autonumber,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autonumber.

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