Usually means: Self-sustaining process that accelerates itself.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocatalytic: Merriam-Webster
  2. autocatalytic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autocatalytic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. autocatalytic: Vocabulary.com
  5. autocatalytic: Wordnik
  6. autocatalytic: Wiktionary
  7. autocatalytic: Dictionary.com
  8. Autocatalytic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. autocatalytic: Rhymezone
  10. autocatalytic: FreeDictionary.org
  11. autocatalytic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. autocatalytic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Autocatalytic: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. autocatalytic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. autocatalytic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. autocatalytic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (autocatalytic)

▸ adjective:  (chemistry, of a reaction) catalyzed by one of its own products

Similar:
autocatalysed, autoxidative, cocatalyzed, organocatalyzed, photocatalysed, heterocatalytic, photoassisted, multireaction, organocatalysed, monomolecular, more...

Opposite:
heterocatalytic, non-autocatalytic, non-self-catalytic

Types:
positive feedback, negative feedback, amplifying loop, damping loop, more...

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Similar:
autocatalysed, autoxidative, cocatalyzed, organocatalyzed, photocatalysed, heterocatalytic, photoassisted, multireaction, organocatalysed, monomolecular, more...

Opposite:
heterocatalytic, non-autocatalytic, non-self-catalytic

Types:
positive feedback, negative feedback, amplifying loop, damping loop, more...



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