autocorrect

verb

1. (transitive)To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.

   “In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.”

   “But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.”

   “The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.”

   “That is the angriest Lindsey Graham has been about a cellphone since his name got autocorrected to “Linty Grandma”. “Stupid phone! Luhn mah name, Ah am your bawss! Stupid! So duhmb!”.”

   “The 50-year-old steel worker said he had meant to type Sawyers should win the "buffoon d'Or". He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.

   “Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.”