BACKTRACKING

Verb

backtracking

present participle of backtrack

Noun

backtracking (countable and uncountable, plural backtrackings)

(countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.

(aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.

(computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.

Anagrams

• backing track

Source: Wiktionary



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COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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