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backdriving

backdriving is the present participle of backdrive.

Meaning of backdrive

Verb

backdrive (third-person singular simple present backdrives, present participle backdriving, simple past and past participle backdrived)

  1. operated a system of gears by applying a force to the output, transmitting force through the geartrain in the reverse of the usual direction.

Questions about backdriving

What is backdriving the present participle of?
Backdriving is the present participle of backdrive.

Words near backdriving in the dictionary

  1. backdraught
  2. backdraughts
  3. backdrivability
  4. backdrivable
  5. backdrive
  6. backdriving
  7. backdrop
  8. backdropped
  9. backdropping
  10. backdrops
  11. backdune

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backdriving (page history and authors); backdrive (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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