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backchaining

backchaining is the present participle and gerund of backchain.

Meaning of backchain

Verb

backchain (third-person singular simple present backchains, present participle backchaining, simple past and past participle backchained)

  1. (artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.

Questions about backchaining

What is backchaining the present participle and gerund of?
Backchaining is the present participle and gerund of backchain.

Words near backchaining in the dictionary

  1. backcasted
  2. backcasting
  3. backcasts
  4. backchain
  5. backchained
  6. backchaining
  7. backchains
  8. backchannel
  9. backchanneled
  10. backchanneling
  11. backchannelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backchaining (page history and authors); backchain (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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