backcheck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal.
  2. To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
  3. To check someone else's work after they have completed it, in a backward-looking type of review or audit, especially one that runs on a backchannel workflow in parallel with the main workflow (and thus is not a rate-determining or throughput-bottlenecking step).
noun
  1. The act of backchecking.

Word forms

backcheck backchecks backchecking backchecked

Etymology

From back + check.

Derived words

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