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Definition of Backtrack
1. Verb. Retrace one's course. "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
Definition of Backtrack
1. Noun. the act of backtracking ¹
2. Verb. to retrace one's steps ¹
3. Verb. to repeat or review work already done ¹
4. Verb. (aviation) To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backtrack
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backtrack
Literary usage of Backtrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. SAS/OR(R) 9.1.2 User's Guide:: Mathematical Programming by SAS Publishing, SAS Institute, Trevor Kearney, Virginia Clark, Donna Sawyer (2004)
"backtrack=ru/e specifies the rule used to choose the next active problem when
backtracking is ... backtrack=L/FO . backtrack=F/FO . backtrack=OBJ ..."
2. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2001)
"Leaving Seward If you don't want to backtrack on the highway, you've got a couple
... The Sterling Highway Iy road, from Seward, you have to backtrack, ..."
3. The Likelihood Principle by James O. Berger, Robert L. Wolpert (1988)
"This supposedly conflicts with the intuition that, given e, X is three times as
likely to extend the path as to backtrack (there are 3 directions to extend ..."
4. Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the by Len Wilcox (2000)
"The early travelers would continue westward up the canyon from the fort but, due
to changes in the land since that time, we have to backtrack and go around ..."
5. End The Biggest Educational And Intellectual Blunder In History: A $100,000 by Norman W. Edmund (2005)
"Modify Your Hypothesis: In testing your predictions, if you find something wrong,
backtrack to Stage #7, modify your hypothesis, and change your predictions ..."
6. Puerto Rico by Kurt Pitzer, Tara Stevens (2001)
"Park before you reach the tunnel for the following side trip: backtrack past the
water tower and cross ... backtrack again, and then go through the tunnel. ..."
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