FALLBACK

disengagement, fallback, pullout

(noun) to break off a military action with an enemy

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

fallback (countable and uncountable, plural fallbacks)

An act of falling back.

A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.

(construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.

Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

Synonyms

• (act of falling back): ebbing, recession, retreat

• (backup plan): back-up/backup, plan B, recourse

Hyponyms

• automatic fallback

• modulation fallback

Adjective

fallback (not comparable)

That can be resorted to as a fallback.

Synonyms

• alternate/alternative, back-up/backup, secondary

Verb

fallback

Misspelling of fall back.

Anagrams

• backfall

Source: Wiktionary

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