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countback

noun

Etymology

From count + back.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. compounded as countback — “count + back”

Definitions

  1. A procedure used to determine which of two equal finishers is the winner, based on past…

    A procedure used to determine which of two equal finishers is the winner, based on past performance

    • Vettel is classified as the leader on results countback.
    • Davis finished second yesterday after recovering from a fall to retain the leader's ochre jersey on a countback.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for countback. 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