back end

See also: backend and back-end

English

Alternative forms

• back-end, backend
• backen', back-en' (Scotland)

Noun

back end (plural back ends)

1. The rear, back, or unseen portion (of something).

   The back end of the operation is kept out of sight of the customers.

2. (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 […]

3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn; late autumn.

Derived terms

• look like the back end of a bus

Translations

rear, back or invisible portion

• Finnish: takapää, takaosa, loppupää, loppuosa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: за́дняя часть f (zádnjaja častʹ), закулисье (ru) n (zakulisʹje), кухня (ru) f (kuxnja)

computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後端／后端 (hòuduān), 后端 (hòuduān)

• Finnish: back end
• French: back-end (fr) m, arrière-plan (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Georgian: სერვერული მხარე (serveruli mxare), ბექენდი (bekendi) (slang)
• German: Back-End n
• Japanese: バックエンド (ja) (bakkuendo)
• Russian: прикладна́я часть f (prikladnája častʹ), бэк-э́нд m (bɛk-énd)
• Spanish: dorsal (es) m, motor (es) m (parasynonym)

latter end of any given time

• Finnish: loppupuoli
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: поздняя f (pozdnjaja)

See also

• front end