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BACK-END

Date "BACK-END" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Crosswords: BACK-END

Specialty definitions using "BACK-END": eye candyInterface Definition LanguagejadeTeXNML. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BACK-END" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (back-end).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: BACK-END

DomainDefinition

Computing

Back-end Any software performing either the final stage in a process, or a task not apparent to the user. A common usage is in a compiler. A compiler's back-end generates machine language and performs optimisations specific to the machine's architecture. The term can also be used in the context of network applications. E.g. "The back-end of the system handles socket protocols". Contrast front end. (1996-04-09). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Electrical Engineering

Set of interacting groups involved in the final processing line of an integrated circuit, e. g. passivation, electrical tests, chip separation, bonding, packaging, and final tests. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: BACK-END

DomainTitle

Books

  • Back-End of the Fuel Cycle in a 1000 Gwe Nuclear Scenario: Workshop Proceedings, Avignon, France, 6-7 October 1998 (Oecd Proceedings) (reference)

  • Semicondctr & Elect. Food Chain: REV:Dec. Btb Expansion to 0.78:1 on Bookings Strength, Back-End Jump [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BACK-END

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

In addition, IT professionals advise that many businesses are searching for front-end e-commerce solutions, which will create an integrated interface with their back-end system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BACK-END

"BACK-END" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "BACK-END" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)53.33%8124,375
Adjective (general or positive)46.67%7133,076
                    Total100.00%15N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BACK-END

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BACK-END": back-end-of-a-bus.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BACK-END

Language Translations for "BACK-END"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

后端. (various references)

   

Danish

  

back-end-software, back-end-programmel, back-end. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

achtergrondtaak. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

taustaohjelma. (various references)

   

French

  

unité finale (back-end line), unité de fabrication finale (back-end line), arrière-plan (background). (various references)

   

German

  

Backend (baking). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νωτιαίο άκρο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

circuito integrato back-end (back-end IC, back-end integrated circuit). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

後置 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うち (arable land, arrest, cleverness, confinement, craft, cunning, detailed, detention, elaborate, exquisite, heights, high ground, plateau, skill, slow and elaborate, well-known). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

후부 (Backside). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ack-endbay

   

Portuguese

  

back-end, apoio de rectaguarda. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

внутренний (domestic, endo-, endogeneous, indoor, in-house, inland, inner, inner tube, innermost, inside, internal, interum, intestine, intimate, intrinsical, mediterranean). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

trasero final. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BACK-END

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-k-n"

-1 letter: backed, banked.

-2 letters: acned, baked, baned, caked, caned, dance, knead, naked.

-3 letters: abed, aced, acne, back, bade, bake, band, bane, bank, bead, beak, bean, beck, bend, cade, cake, cane, dace, dank, dean, deck, kane, nabe, neck.

-4 letters: ace, and, ane, bad, ban, bed, ben, cab, cad, can, dab, dak, deb, den, end, kab, kae.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-k-n"
 

+1 letter: backbend, neckband, unbacked.

 

+2 letters: backbends, blackened, neckbands.

 

+3 letters: backhanded, backhander.

 

+4 letters: backhanders, backslidden, blackhander, hunchbacked, unbracketed.

 

+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, backhandedly, backpedaling, backwardness, backwoodsmen, blackhanders, crackbrained.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BACK-END


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 43 4B 2D 45 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01000011 01001011 00101101 01000101 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#45 &#69 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 004B 002D 0045 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3635374515394838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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