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- noun Plural form of
back-reference .
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Examples
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Just when you think it's over, it morphs into a different song and back-references everything you've just seen.
The Guardian World News Sarah Bowden 2011
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U Is For Undertow, a novel set mainly in 1988, with back-references to events that occurred 21 years earlier.
London Free Press 2010
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And the reason for the order in the DNS packets is that it allows compression by back-references.
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