Sekirov Dictionary

backstep

noun 6
verb 6
forms 3

noun6

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A step backwards
- There are also times when a player needs to enlist the aid of the backstep while on the baseline. — 1985
(figurative) A regression.
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A platform at the rear of a firetruck where a firefighter can stand.
- Then, when I was a backstep firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off. — 2010
An abrupt subsidence or change in deposition preserved in the sedimentary record due to a marine transgression.
Flow over a backward-facing step.
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The process of going back and finishing a specification that was incomplete at the start of a process, once enough progress has been made to know the full details.
- With care it is possible to combine a median-of-three mechanism with partitioning that avoids backstep initialization. — 1989

verb6

To take a step backwards
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To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
- As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to backstep, with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones. — 2009
To retract or take back.
To return to a previous place or time.
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To be arranged in steps going backwards.
- Le Vau is responsible for the jutting central core, while the wings that backstep so elegantly were designed Hardouin-Mansart. — 2001
To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.

forms

backstepped · backstepping · backsteps

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