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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: regular expressions
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: regular expressions
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From back + reference.
