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back-channel

back-channel is the alternative form of backchannel.

Meaning of backchannel

Verb

backchannel (third-person singular simple present backchannels, present participle (US) backchanneling or (UK) backchannelling, simple past and past participle (US) backchanneled or (UK) backchannelled)

  1. (transitive) To employ a back channel.
    1. (transitive) To employ non-verbal (oral and visual) means to influence a speaker without interruption.

Forms of back-channel

third-person singular presentback-channels
present participle USback-channeling
present participle UKback-channelling
past participle USback-channeled
past USback-channeled
past participle UKback-channelled
past UKback-channelled

Questions about back-channel

What is back-channel the alternative form of?
Back-channel is the alternative form of backchannel.

Words near back-channel in the dictionary

  1. back-butter
  2. back-buttered
  3. back-buttering
  4. back-butters
  5. back-butts
  6. back-channel
  7. back-channeled
  8. back-channeling
  9. back-channelled
  10. back-channelling
  11. back-channels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-channel (page history and authors); backchannel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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