from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun Something to which one can resort or retreat.
noun A retreat.
noun Something that falls back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The act or process of falling back.
noun Something or someone to which one resorts as an alternative to a failed resource or method.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun An act of falling back.
noun A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
noun construction A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.
adjective That can be resorted to as a fallback.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun to break off a military action with an enemy
verb retreat
verb fall backwards and down
verb move back and away from
verb have recourse to
verb go back to bad behavior
verb hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Etymologies
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From the verb fall back.
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So, the fallback is to use old studies, done on dissimilar programs (human space flight and Earth/space science missions present very different challenges) and in management environments (NASA-OMB-Congress) that were quite different than they are currently.
"So, the fallback is to use old studies, done on dissimilar programs (human space flight and Earth/space science missions present very different challenges)"
The default theme is sometimes called the fallback theme, because if the active theme is for some reason lost or deleted, WordPress will fallback to using the default theme.
The default theme is sometimes called the fallback theme, because if the active theme is for some reason lost or deleted, WordPress will fallback to using the default theme.
The oil industry's involvement in biofuels is best characterized as a fallback plan in case the world's governments implement aggressive climate policies or OPEC and other oil-rich nations -- where state-owned oil companies reign supreme -- further restrict foreign access to oil.
The oil industry's involvement in biofuels is best characterized as a fallback plan in case the world's governments implement aggressive climate policies or OPEC and other oil-rich nations -- where state-owned oil companies reign supreme -- further restrict foreign access to oil.
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