fallback
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the verb fall back.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fallback (countable and uncountable, plural fallbacks)
- An act of falling back.
- A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.
- The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.
- A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
- As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.
- (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
- Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
- 1970, Nuclear Science Abstracts, page 3595:
- Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.
Synonyms
[edit]- (act of falling back): ebbing, recession, retreat
- (backup plan): back-up/backup, plan B, recourse. Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:option
Hyponyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an act of falling back
a backup plan
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Adjective
[edit]fallback (not comparable)
- That can be resorted to as a fallback.
- a fallback plan
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[edit]Verb
[edit]fallback
- Misspelling of fall back.
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