backtracking

verb

Meaning

To retrace one's steps.
To repeat or review work already done.
To taxi down an active runway in the opposite direction to that being used for takeoff.
To exercise a racehorse around the racetrack in the opposite direction to that in which races are run.
(countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.

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