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back-translations

back-translations is the plural of back-translation.

Meaning of back-translation

Noun

back-translation (countable and uncountable, plural back-translations)

  1. (uncountable) The process of translating a previously translated document back into the original language.
  2. (countable) A text which has been translated in such a fashion.
  3. The translation of an amino acid sequence into genetic code.

Questions about back-translations

What is back-translations the plural of?
Back-translations is the plural of back-translation.

Words near back-translations in the dictionary

  1. back-translate
  2. back-translated
  3. back-translates
  4. back-translating
  5. back-translation
  6. back-translations
  7. back-transliterate
  8. back-transliterated
  9. back-transliterates
  10. back-transliterating
  11. back-transliteration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-translations (page history and authors); back-translation (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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