readback
English
Etymology
read + back
Noun
readback (plural readbacks)
- (computing) The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
- 2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection (page 415)
- If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.
- 2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection (page 415)
- (aviation, telecommunications) The repetition of a message one has received, in order to acknowledge it.
- The reading aloud by a court reporter or stenographer of testimony previously taken down in stenographic dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition.
Anagrams
- backread