flyback

English

Etymology

From fly +‎ back.

Noun

flyback (countable and uncountable, plural flybacks)

1. The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
2. A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.

Adjective

flyback (not comparable)

1. Of a rabbit's fur: tending to spring back to its original position during stroking or brushing.
   • 1950, Small Stock Magazine, page 45:

     Short ears, wide heads, dense flyback fur and early developing.

   • 2013, George A. Townsend, Practical Rabbit Keeping:

     Exquisitely silky and intensely dense, not a flyback coat […]