back end
English
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Noun
- The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).
- The back end of the operation is kept out of sight of the customers.
- (computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user; the internals rather than the user interface.
- Antonym: front end
- 2002, Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney, Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide, "O'Reilly Media, Inc." (→ISBN), page 295:
- Together, the MathDocument and PaperController classes comprise the MathPaper application's front end, while the Evaluator makes up the application's back end. This technique of having separate front and back ends is a common […]
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.
Derived terms
Translations
rear, back or invisible portion
computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user
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latter end of any given time
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