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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something to which one can resort or retreat.
  2. n. A retreat.
  3. n. Computer Science A mechanism for carrying forth programmed instructions despite malfunction or failure of the primary device.
  4. n. Something that falls back: the fallback of a huge explosion.
  5. adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a resort or place of retreat: a fallback proposal; a fallback position behind our own lines.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An act of falling back.
  2. n. A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
  3. n. construction A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.
  4. adj. That can be resorted to as a fallback.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act or process of falling back.
  2. n. Something or someone to which one resorts as an alternative to a failed resource or method.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. retreat.
  2. v. fall backwards and down
  3. v. move back and away from
  4. v. have recourse to
  5. v. go back to bad behavior
  6. v. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  7. n. to break off a military action with an enemy

Etymologies

  1. From the verb fall back. (Wiktionary)

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