autonumber

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ number

Noun

autonumber (plural autonumbers)

  1. (computing) An automatically generated number.
    • 2013, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook:
      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.

Verb

autonumber (third-person singular simple present autonumbers, present participle autonumbering, simple past and past participle autonumbered)

  1. (computing, transitive) To number automatically.
    • 2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102:
      Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?
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