back end

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).
  2. That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
  3. The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.
  4. Money paid on a contingent deferred basis, for example, as a proportion of the profits or revenue of a work.
  5. The processing of spent fuel from a nuclear reactor into reusable materials.

Word forms

back end back ends back-end backend backen' back-en'

Antonyms

Related words

Derived words

backendish look like the back end of a bus
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.