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backscan

backscan noun: a scan from the back or rear side.

Noun

backscan (countable and uncountable, plural backscans)

  1. (rare) A scan from the back or rear side.
    Antonyms:
    forescan

Verb

backscan (third-person singular simple present backscans, present participle backscanning, simple past and past participle backscanned)

  1. (rare, transitive) To scan something from the back or rear side.
    • If at any stage it is impossible to make the required allocation of a node or line, or after the last E-word to find other realisations with the same mesh point 1, the control stream is backscanned by the interpreter to the first significant new allocation and the forward scan restarted.1968, Machine Intelligence, Volume 2, page 86

Antonyms of backscan

Forms of backscan

Noun
pluralbackscans
Verb
third-person singular presentbackscans
present participlebackscanning
past participlebackscanned
pastbackscanned

Origin of backscan

From back- + scan.

Questions about backscan

What does backscan mean?
Backscan means a scan from the back or rear side.
What part of speech is backscan?
Backscan can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of backscan?
The plural of backscan is backscans.

Words near backscan in the dictionary

  1. backsaw
  2. backsawed
  3. backsawing
  4. backsawn
  5. backsaws
  6. backscan
  7. backscanned
  8. backscanning
  9. backscans
  10. backscarp
  11. backscarps

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