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backtranslate

backtranslate verb: to translate a translated text to its original language.

Verb

backtranslate (third-person singular simple present backtranslates, present participle backtranslating, simple past and past participle backtranslated)

  1. To translate a translated text to its original language
    • There are those who put significant effort into retranslating and backtranslating work to avoid detection.2021, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Plagiarism in Higher Education
  2. To translate a protein's amino acid sequence to a nucleotide sequence

Forms of backtranslate

third-person singular presentbacktranslates
present participlebacktranslating
past participlebacktranslated
pastbacktranslated

Questions about backtranslate

What does backtranslate mean?
Backtranslate means to translate a translated text to its original language.
What part of speech is backtranslate?
Backtranslate is a verb.
What is the past tense of backtranslate?
The past tense of backtranslate is backtranslated.

Words near backtranslate in the dictionary

  1. backtransformation
  2. backtransformations
  3. backtransformed
  4. backtransforming
  5. backtransforms
  6. backtranslate
  7. backtranslated
  8. backtranslates
  9. backtranslating
  10. backtranslation
  11. backtranslations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backtranslate (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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