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backpatching

backpatching is the present participle and gerund 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 backpatching

What is backpatching the present participle and gerund of?
Backpatching is the present participle and gerund of backpatch.

Words near backpatching in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backpatching (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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