back-translation

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English

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Etymology

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From back- +‎ translation.

Noun

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back-translation (countable and uncountable, plural back-translations)

  1. (translation studies, uncountable) The process of translating a previously translated document back into the original language.
  2. (translation studies, countable) A text which has been translated in such a fashion.
  3. (genetics) The translation of an amino acid sequence into genetic code.
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