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fly-back

fly-back is the alternative form of flyback.

Meaning of flyback

Noun

flyback (countable and uncountable, plural flybacks)

  1. The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
  2. A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.

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Forms of fly-back

pluralfly-backs

Questions about fly-back

What is fly-back the alternative form of?
Fly-back is the alternative form of flyback.

Words near fly-back in the dictionary

  1. fly windows
  2. fly with leaden wings
  3. fly without a licence
  4. fly-ass
  5. fly-away
  6. fly-back
  7. fly-backs
  8. fly-bitten
  9. fly-blown
  10. fly-boat
  11. fly-boats

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