"autodetection" meaning in English

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          "text": "Thus the onset of \"autodetection\" leads, in the case of sequential resonance, to a negative peak of the current.",
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          "ref": "1996, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Windows NT Server Resource Kit",
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          "text": "As with Red Hat Linux, networking is probably already set up on your system because of the autodetection done during installation.",
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