autoloading
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Examples
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Expect his "assault weapons ban" to cover any shotgun which "can be retrofitted" with an extended magazine... which means about every pump gun since the late 19th century, and almost every autoloading shotgun, like your great-grandpa's Browning Automatic Five.
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In modern software development, autoloading allows modules to be loaded only when they are first needed, which improves performance.
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Many programming languages support autoloading to simplify code organization by loading classes automatically on demand.
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The framework's autoloading feature ensures that all necessary components are initialized at runtime without manual intervention.
How Automatic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
autoloading = autoload (transparent) = auto + load + ing
The noun is the gerund form of autoload, so the step from the base verb to the noun is a standard and transparent suffixation pattern.
Etymology
The word autoloading comes from auto- as in automatic, meaning 'self', and loading meaning 'putting in' code. So in computing autoloading is when a program lets a piece of code load by itself the first time it is used, which saves time and memory.