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backscan

noun

Etymology

From back- + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. prefixed as backscan — “back + scan”

Definitions

  1. A scan from the back or rear side.

  2. To scan something from the back or rear side.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA