autodetection

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ detection.

Noun

autodetection (uncountable)

1. (computing) automatic detection
   • 1972, Radio Engineering and Electronic Physics, volume 17, page 1588:

     Thus the onset of "autodetection" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.

   • 1996, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit:

     Exclude as many hardware types and items from autodetection as possible. If autodetection crashes, run Setup again and exclude more items from autodetection.

   • 2000, Nicholas Wells, Guide to Linux Installation and Administration‎, volume 1, page 83:

     As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.

   • 2010, David Mark, iPhone Advanced Projects‎, page 275:

     This allowed us to engineer a network protocol for iTap that both supports autodetection and works with Windows as well as Mac OS X.

Related terms

• autodetect