Definition of Backtracking

1. Verb. (present participle of backtrack) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backtracking

1. backtrack [v] - See also: backtrack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backtracking

backtalks
backtest
backtested
backtesting
backtests
backtick
backticks
backtrace
backtraced
backtraces
backtracing
backtrack
backtracked
backtracker
backtrackers
backtracking
backtracks
backup
backup file
backup man
backup rate
backup vocalist
backup vocals
backupable
backups
backveld
backvelds
backward
backward and forward
backward compatibility

Literary usage of Backtracking

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

1. Speed Reading by Readpal, ReadPal, Dr Louis Crowe (2005)
"However, if you can read this book, frequent backtracking is not ... Backtracking is usually a subconscious habit - people don't even realise that they are ..."

2. SAS/OR(R) 9.1 User's Guide:: Constraint Programming by Sas Institute, Institute SAS Institute (2004)
"Consequently, most problems in this class are NP-complete problems, and a backtracking search is an important technique for solving them (Floyd 1967). ..."

3. From Initial Education to Working Life: Making Transitions Workby OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2000)
"Backtracking and sidetracking are common.8 At times young people appear to be ... The numbers moving in the Such sidetracking and backtracking are among the ..."

4. Inequalities in Statistics and Probability: Proceedings of the Symposium on by Yung Liang Tong (1984)
"As soon as Vy is found to contain the sink b, one obtains through backtracking an unsaturated path from a to b. One proceeds to increase the flow along that ..."

5. Educational Satellite Long Guarantee Program Act, and Distance Learning by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"Now, they are all backtracking. They are all backtracking, and they are trying to do something which is insidious, and which I want all of you at the ..."

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