Cupertino effect (English, noun)
expansion: Cupertino effect
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: originally
glosses: The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal dictionary, with words that are starkly incorrect in context.
glosses: The failure of spell checkers to replace incorrectly spelled words with the actually intended words, resulting in miscorrections.
tags: broadly
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