backcheck

== English == === Etymology === From back +‎ check. === Verb === backcheck (third-person singular simple present backchecks, present participle backchecking, simple past and past participle backchecked) (transitive, ice hockey) To check (an opposing player) while skating toward or near one's own goal. (intransitive, ice hockey) To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal. (quality control) 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). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === backcheck (plural backchecks) The act of backchecking. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Checking (ice hockey) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === checkback