backtranslate

English

Verb

backtranslate (third-person singular simple present backtranslates, present participle backtranslating, simple past and past participle backtranslated)

To translate a translated text to its original language
- 2021, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Plagiarism in Higher Education:
  There are those who put significant effort into retranslating and backtranslating work to avoid detection.
(biochemistry) To translate a protein's amino acid sequence to a nucleotide sequence

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