backtracking
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Definitions ofbacktracking
- To retrace one's steps.
Example: "I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them."
- To repeat or review work already done.
Example: "If we backtrack through this problem, maybe we can figure out where we went wrong."
- To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
Example: "Speedbird One: enter and backtrack Runway 27 Left."
- To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
- The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
- The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
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