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FLASHBACK
flashback
(noun) a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
flashback
(noun) an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flashback (plural flashbacks)
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
Synonym: analepsis
(psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs.
Coordinate term: reminiscence
A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
(databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
Verb
flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)
(intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.
Synonyms
• flash back
Anagrams
• backflash, half-backs, halfbacks
Source: Wiktionary
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