Usually means: Compatible with older hardware, software.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. backwards compatible: Merriam-Webster
  2. backwards-compatible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backwards-compatible: Wordnik
  4. backwards compatible: Dictionary.com
  5. Backwards-compatible, Backwards compatible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. backwards-compatible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. backwards compatible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  8. backwards compatible: Wiktionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. backwards compatible: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. backwards compatible: Netlingo
  3. Backwards-compatible, backwards compatible: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Backwards compatible)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of backward compatible [(software) Capable of interoperating with older systems.]

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downgradeable, reversable, revertable, irreversable, interconvertable, programable, migrateable, updateable, unconvertable, retrooperative, more...

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downgradeable, reversable, revertable, irreversable, interconvertable, programable, migrateable, updateable, unconvertable, retrooperative, more...



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