readback
English edit
Etymology edit
Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.
Noun edit
readback (plural readbacks)
- (computing) The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
- 2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection, page 415:
- If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.
- (aviation, telecommunications) The repetition of a message one has received, in order to acknowledge it and to demonstrate accurate comprehension (especially of commands).
- (dictation, stenography) The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).
- OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.
- The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.