autonumber
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editautonumber (plural autonumbers)
- (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
editautonumber (third-person singular simple present autonumbers, present participle autonumbering, simple past and past participle autonumbered)
- (computing, transitive) To number automatically.
- 2007, Andre Ben-Hamou, Practical Ruby for System Administration, page 102:
- Will it still autonumber the lines for me […] ?