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wayback machine

wayback machine noun: a time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.

Noun

wayback machine (plural wayback machines)

  1. A time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.
    • I can't set Mr. Peabody's wayback machine to July 1, 1863, and take my entire class of fifth graders on a field trip to show them what the Battle of Gettysburg was like. I don't have a wayback machine.2008, Terry Thompson, Adventures in Graphica, →ISBN
    • The star middle linebacker, who will go down in history as one of the Bears' best and most popular players, willingly jumped in the wayback machine and stopped it on a game during his second NFL season.2008, Lew Freedman, The 50 Greatest Plays in Chicago Bears Football History, →ISBN, page 42

wayback machine meaning in Tamil

wayback machine in Tamil

மலரும் நினைவுகள்

Examples of wayback machine in a sentence

  • Reduced to its core, originalism promises that judges can ride a constitutional wayback machine, taking orders from the esteemed Founders.2014, Michael Waldman, The Second Amendment: A Biography, →ISBN, page 111:
  • So let's set the wayback machine to 2009 to show an example of what I was doing back then.2014, Michael Mowbray, Shoot to Thrill: Speedlight Flash Techniques for Photographers, →ISBN:

Forms of wayback machine

pluralwayback machines

Origin of wayback machine

From the WABAC machine in the animated cartoon Mister Peabody, from way back (“long ago”). According to Gerard Baldwin, one of the show's directors, the spelling was a reference to the UNIVAC I computer.

Questions about wayback machine

What does wayback machine mean?
Wayback machine means a time machine or other means of revisiting information from the past.
What is wayback machine in Tamil?
Wayback machine in Tamil is மலரும் நினைவுகள். See Wayback machine meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wayback machine in a sentence?
Reduced to its core, originalism promises that judges can ride a constitutional wayback machine, taking orders from the esteemed Founders.
What part of speech is wayback machine?
Wayback machine is a noun.
What is the plural of wayback machine?
The plural of wayback machine is wayback machines.

Words near wayback machine in the dictionary

  1. wayang
  2. wayangs
  3. Wayao
  4. Wayatinah
  5. wayback
  6. wayback machine
  7. wayback machines
  8. waybacks
  9. waybeam
  10. waybeams
  11. waybill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wayback machine (page history and authors); wayback machine (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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