backcheck
The English word “backcheck” has 4 meanings listed here.
verb
- To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
- To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
- To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).
noun
- The act of backchecking.
Etymology
From back + check.
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