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tracebacks

tracebacks is the plural of traceback.

Meaning of traceback

Noun

traceback (countable and uncountable, plural tracebacks)

  1. Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.
  2. A stack trace (in some programming languages)
    • ... which appears in the top line of the traceback, looking for the point at which the system is likely to have become corrupted . The ability to read and use tracebacks is a skill no MOO administrator should be without .2001, Cynthia A. Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 155

Questions about tracebacks

What is tracebacks the plural of?
Tracebacks is the plural of traceback.

Words near tracebacks in the dictionary

  1. traceability matrixes
  2. traceable
  3. traceableness
  4. traceably
  5. traceback
  6. tracebacks
  7. traced
  8. traced down
  9. tracee
  10. tracees
  11. traceless

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