fallback
About 0.16 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun An act of falling back.
A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.
- noun A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.
- noun A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
- noun Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
- adjective That can be resorted to as a fallback.
a fallback plan
- verb Misspelling of fall back.
Similar words
pullout disengagement fall-back retract retreat backsliding retrogression withdrawal regress reversal
Often followed by
position positions to plan option in strategy for is
Word family
fallbacks
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