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backreferencing

backreferencing is the present participle and gerund 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 backreferencing

What is backreferencing the present participle and gerund of?
Backreferencing is the present participle and gerund of backreference.

Words near backreferencing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backreferencing (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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