Definition of "autotype" [au•to•type]

• A copy or facsimile (noun)
• An early form of photograph produced using autotypy (noun)
• A function that completes the typing of a field using a prediction based upon the characters entered so far (noun)

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• "What is not acceptible is the autotype function of inserting a left quotation mark for an initial apostrophe."
• "How I am able to type this is unknown, some kind of residual autotype facility located in the fingers."
• "It is to indicate this that Plato, drawing on something well within our observation, represents the Creator as approving the work he has achieved: the intention is to make us feel the lovable beauty of the autotype and of the Divine Idea; for to admire a representation is to admire the original upon which it was made."