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backcast

noun

Meaning

  1. A cast or throw back.
  2. A backward stroke, or a stroke driving one back.
  3. Any discouragement or cause of relapse or failure.
  4. Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.
  5. Retrospect; hindsight.
  6. Backwater
  7. To identify the actions required in order to reach a proposed future.
  8. To change retrospectively; reverse.
  9. Retrospective.
  10. (of time) Long ago; in the past.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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