autoshift

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ shift.

Noun

autoshift (plural autoshifts)

  1. An automatic shift.
    • 2024 January 2, Kyle Orland, “34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen””, in Ars Technica‎[1]:
      The first known way past the brick wall of Level 29 was a technique that became known as hypertapping. By using a special grip that lets you vibrate a finger over the D-pad directions at least 10 times a second, you can effectively skip the "delayed autoshift" (DAS) that limits how fast pieces can move laterally when the D-pad is held down.

Verb

autoshift (third-person singular simple present autoshifts, present participle autoshifting, simple past and past participle autoshifted)

  1. To shift automatically.
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