noun
Meaning 1
An overturned flap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
foldback
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Sound
Pronunciation
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.
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noun
Meaning 2
A current-limiting feature in power supplies and amplifiers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 4
A denatured (single-strand) DNA molecule that has formed base pair bonds with itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
A chromosome that contains sequences which support foldback; A DNA molecule with a base sequence or sequences that are repeated in reverse order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A portion of a storyline that branches based on user choices but where all branches eventually reconverge to a single inevitable event.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: roleplaying games
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noun
Meaning 7
A multimethod research approach that includes open-ended interviewing, nominal group dialogue, survey and attitude scaling techniques, and multidimensional and cluster analyses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, social-sciences
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History
Etymology
From fold + back.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Māori: oro auraki — use of rear-facing loudspeakers