autosuggest

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ suggest.

Noun

autosuggest (uncountable)

1. (computing) Any feature that makes automatic suggestions to the user.
   • 2015 September 2, “Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas: Opening Access to the Biology of Nuclear Receptor Signaling Pathways”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Alternatively, an Amazon-like interface filters the list of molecules by specifying type (Nuclear receptor, coregulator, ligand) or by typing GO Terms or Diseases in autosuggest text boxes.

Verb

autosuggest (third-person singular simple present autosuggests, present participle autosuggesting, simple past and past participle autosuggested)

1. (psychiatry) To suggest to oneself.
2. (computing, transitive) To suggest automatically.

   I typed "xary" and the spell checker autosuggested "X-ray".