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backreferenced

backreferenced is the simple past and past participle of backreference.

Meaning of backreference

Verb

backreference (third-person singular simple present backreferences, present participle backreferencing, simple past and past participle backreferenced)

  1. (transitive, regular expressions) To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
    • By wrapping it in parentheses, the attributes can be reused by backreferencing this part of the pattern[…]2009, Larry Ullman, Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide, page 237

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Questions about backreferenced

What is backreferenced the simple past and past participle of?
Backreferenced is the simple past and past participle of backreference.

Words near backreferenced in the dictionary

  1. backreading
  2. backreads
  3. backreef
  4. backreefs
  5. backreference
  6. backreferenced
  7. backreferences
  8. backreferencing
  9. backrest
  10. backrests
  11. backridden

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backreferenced (page history and authors); backreference (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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