autodecremented
|au-to-de-cre-ment-ed|
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/ˌɔːtoʊˈdɛkrəmənt/
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/ˌɔːtəʊˈdɛkrəmənt/
(autodecrement)
automatic decrease (often by 1)
Etymology
'autodecrement' is a modern compound formed from the prefix 'auto-' (from Greek 'autos', meaning 'self') and the noun 'decrement' (from Latin 'decrementum', meaning 'a lessening').
'autodecrement' arose in late 20th-century computing as a direct compound of 'auto-' + 'decrement'. 'Decrement' itself derives from Latin 'decrementum' (from 'decrescere' or related roots), which passed into Middle and Modern English as 'decrement'.
Initially the elements meant 'self' and 'a lessening'; the compound came to mean specifically 'to decrease automatically' in programming contexts (often by 1).
Meanings by Part of Speech
Verb 1
past tense or past participle form of 'autodecrement': to have automatically decreased a value (typically by 1), usually by a mechanism or operator in computing.
The counter autodecremented after the interrupt handler finished.
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Adjective 1
describing something that has been automatically decremented (often by a programmatic operation).
Use the autodecremented pointer to access the previous element.
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