A technique of literary analysis that disregards authorial intent, focusing only on the text.

A post-Maoist current in Chinese political thought favoring enlightened autocracy. / Any present-day phenomenon of authoritarianism.

(Canada, US law) The claimed legitimization of a person's acts by his/her role as an agent of governmental power.

Alternative form of autofellatio

To know from a reliable source (that).

(historical) A motorsport resembling equestrian polo but using automobiles instead of horses.

The propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems.

Overconfidence in an automated machine or process.

(mathematics, computing) Exact differentiation of functions represented in program code by inspecting the code (as opposed to mere evaluation) and repeated application of the chain rule.

plural of auto-mimicry