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Definition of Back end
1. Noun. The side of an object that is opposite its front. "His room was toward the rear of the hotel"
Specialized synonyms: Nape, Nucha, Scruff, Rearward
Generic synonyms: Face, Side
Antonyms: Front
Derivative terms: Rear
Definition of Back end
1. Noun. The rear, back, or invisible portion (of something). ¹
2. Noun. (computing) that part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Back End
Literary usage of Back end
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"back end (racing), the hist two months of the racing season. Lowestoft, though
amongst the arrivals, shirked some of his engagements last back end.—Star. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"Used also in other instances to indicate the latter end of anything, as, ' back-end
o' week.' Backen'd, pp. thrown back; retarded, as vegetation by frost. ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The gas flame both enters and passes away from the back end of the furnace,
leaving the front end available for the furnace door, which is stationary. ..."
4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"Then pry down the back end of the back equalizer and block between that end of
the equalizer and the top bar of the frame, as shown; this will permit of the ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"Well, and they went away, and the preacher that same back end o' th' year were
appointed to another circuit, as they call it, and I were left alone on ..."
6. Nuclear Energy Today by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2003)
"The back end The back end of the fuel cycle starts when the irradiated or "spent"
fuel is unloaded from the reactor and stored at the reactor site for an ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"BACK-END, s. An ellipsis of the preceding phrase, S. "The hedges will do—I ...
liked so well when you did us the honour to stop a day or two last back-end. ..."
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