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Rarebacktracking
The correct spelling is backtracking.
How to pronounce backtracking
verb
Say it like: Bak-tra-kin-g
The correct spelling is backtracking. To retrace one's steps. For example: "I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them."
Usage Examples
“I dropped my sunglasses and had to backtrack to find them.”
“If we backtrack through this problem, maybe we can figure out where we went wrong.”
“Speedbird One: enter and backtrack Runway 27 Left.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To retrace one's steps.
- 2.To repeat or review work already done.
- 3.To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
- 4.To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
noun
- 1.(countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
- 2.The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
- 3.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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