Usually means: Revisiting decisions to find solutions.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. backtracking: Merriam-Webster
  2. backtracking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. backtracking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Backtracking, backtracking: Wordnik
  5. backtracking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. backtracking: Wiktionary
  7. backtracking: Dictionary.com
  8. backtracking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Backtracking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. backtracking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. backtracking: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. backtracking: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. backtracking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Backtracking: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backtracking: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backtracking)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
noun:  (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
noun:  (computer science) 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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