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scrollback

scrollback noun: the part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.

Noun

scrollback (uncountable)

  1. The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
    • The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer.1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15
    • New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […]1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4
  2. (broadly) The part of an online discussion in a scrollable chat that a participants reads to catch up to the more recent discussion.

Synonyms of scrollback

Origin of scrollback

From scroll + back.

Questions about scrollback

What does scrollback mean?
Scrollback means the part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
What part of speech is scrollback?
Scrollback is a noun.

Words near scrollback in the dictionary

  1. scroll wheel
  2. scroll wheels
  3. scroll-gall
  4. scroll-galls
  5. scrollable
  6. scrollback
  7. scrollbar
  8. scrollbars
  9. scrolled
  10. scroller
  11. scrolleries

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