Lexic.us

Definition of Rollback

1. Noun. The act of forcing the enemy to withdraw.

Definition of Rollback

1. Verb. (nonstandard) To roll back. ¹

2. Noun. A return to a prior state. ¹

3. Noun. A withdrawal of military forces. ¹

4. Noun. (computing) An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point). ¹

5. Noun. An event caused by a roller coaster failing to reach the top of a hill. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rollback

1. a return to a lower level of prices or wages [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rollback

Literary usage of Rollback

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons by Sidney David Drell, James E. Goodby (2003)
"... of Diplomacy SEVERAL INSTRUMENTS OF diplomacy must be deployed to implement a rollback policy. They include • Bilateral or regional targeted diplomacy ..."

2. Sas/access 9.1 Interface To System 2000: Reference by Sas Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"If rollback is enabled for the database, partial updates will be rolled out ... Enabling the rollback Log A single SAS observation can be composed of one or ..."

3. Sas/access 9.1 Interface To Ca-datacom/db: Reference by Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"No commit or rollback. Processing ends upon the first error. 0 0 No commit or rollback. Processing does not end upon an error. 0 >0 A commit is performed ..."

4. National Computer Security Conference, 1993 (16th) Proceedings: Information by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The special value "rollback" in the Error State field specifies that the data contents of the object should be automatically backed-up on the open and that ..."

5. Altova Mapforce 2005 User & Reference Manual by Altova (2005)
"Transaction option set at Table Actions level: • The Transaction exception dialog box appears with the "rollback all and stop" option disabled. ..."

Other Resources: