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backporch

backporch is the alternative spelling of back porch.

Meaning of back porch

Noun

back porch (plural back porches)

  1. A porch at the rear of a building.
  2. The portion of each scan line between the end (rising edge) of the horizontal sync pulse and the start of active video, used to restore the black level reference in analog video.

Forms of backporch

pluralbackporches

Origin of backporch

Compound of back + porch

Questions about backporch

What is backporch the alternative spelling of?
Backporch is the alternative spelling of back porch.

Words near backporch in the dictionary

  1. backplates
  2. backpocket
  3. backpocketed
  4. backpocketing
  5. backpockets
  6. backporch
  7. backporches
  8. backport
  9. backportability
  10. backportable
  11. backported

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backporch (page history and authors); back porch (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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