fallback

Plural: fallbacks

Noun

• to break off a military action with an enemy
• An act of falling back.
• A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
• A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
• Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
• pl. -S an act of retreating

Adj

• That can be resorted to as a fallback.

Verb

• Misspelling of fall back.

Examples

• "A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback."
• "a fallback plan"
• "As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails."
• "The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion."

Synonyms

disengagement, pullout, alternate, alternative, back-up, backup, ebbing, plan B, recession, recourse. Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:option, retreat, secondary

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