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backpatches

backpatches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backpatch.

Meaning of backpatch

Verb

backpatch (third-person singular simple present backpatches, present participle backpatching, simple past and past participle backpatched)

  1. To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.

Questions about backpatches

What is backpatches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Backpatches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backpatch.

Words near backpatches in the dictionary

  1. backpass
  2. backpasses
  3. backpat
  4. backpatch
  5. backpatched
  6. backpatches
  7. backpatching
  8. backpats
  9. backpatted
  10. backpatting
  11. backpay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpatches (page history and authors); backpatch (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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