backtracking
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Is backtracking a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.countableuncountable
2. (aviation) The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.countableuncountable
3. (computer science) The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.Examples: "backtracking algorithm"; "Backtracking is used to solve problems in which a sequence of objects is chosen from a specific set so that the sequence satisfies some criterion. The classic example of the use of backtracking is the n-Queens problem."; "This grammar only uses tokens and rules, so there is no backtracking involved, and the grammar is a predictive parser. This is fairly typical. Many grammars work fine without backtracking, or with backtracking in just a few places."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary