n
adjournment; postponement
adv
(obsolete) Back again.
v
(literature) To demonstrate how an event that has already occurred will affect the future.
adj
Reversed in order or sequence.
n
(education) A method of designing an educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment.
n
(game theory) The process of reasoning backwards in time, from the end of a problem or situation, to determine a sequence of optimal actions.
n
An effect in which increased production by a downstream manufacturer provides positive pecuniary externalities to an upstream manufacturer responsible for different stages of the same production process.
n
(rare) Alternative form of backwards time machine [(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the past, but cannot also allow travel to the future.]
n
The annual percentage rate at which customers stop using a service, or employees leave a job (staff turnover).
adj
Whose regression has been reversed
v
(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
n
A look in a backward or retrospective manner; an additional or secondary look; a review.
n
The act of turning toward or downward.
v
(transitive) To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required).
v
To process better or more efficiently.
adj
(anatomy) Running back toward its origin.
n
A flowing back; refluence.
adj
(obsolete) refluent; flowing backward; ebbing
n
A going back; a retrogression.
adj
Going backward; regressive.
adj
That has been subject to regression
n
An action of travelling mentally back in time.
n
A tendency toward regression.
adj
(very rare) that is characterized by, or indicative of a regression
adj
Relating to retrocession
adj
Tending to retrocede; moving backward.
adj
deformed to a previous (typically an original) form
adj
Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
n
(biology) A return to a less complex condition.
n
(medicine) An abnormal tendency to step backwards, as if trying to recover one's balance, sometimes seen in disorders such as Parkinson's Disease.
adj
(biology) turned backwards
n
A turning or falling back.
adj
Characterised by retrusion
n
The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
n
The spelling or writing of a word in reverse or from back to front.
n
The action of reverting something.
n
The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
v
(linguistics) To make a term for.
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