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backtranslating

backtranslating is the present participle and gerund of backtranslate.

Meaning of backtranslate

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

Questions about backtranslating

What is backtranslating the present participle and gerund of?
Backtranslating is the present participle and gerund of backtranslate.

Words near backtranslating in the dictionary

  1. backtransforming
  2. backtransforms
  3. backtranslate
  4. backtranslated
  5. backtranslates
  6. backtranslating
  7. backtranslation
  8. backtranslations
  9. backtroll
  10. backtrolled
  11. backtroller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backtranslating (page history and authors); 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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