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[back-end]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en] , [en]
- [en] , [en] [Scotland]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The rear , back, or unseen portion (of something).
2. [en] That part of a hardware or software system that is farthest from the user ; the internal s rather than the user interface .
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2002 | author=Simson Garfinkel; Michael K. Mahoney | title=Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-step Guide | publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." | isbn=9780596002350 | page=295
|passage=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 [...]}}
1. [en] The latter end of any given time, especially the latter part of the year; autumn ; late autumn.
2. [en] Money paid on a contingent deferred basis, for example, as a proportion of the profit s or revenue of a work.
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6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=Peter Biskind | title=Down and Dirty Pictures
|passage=[...] Miramax was going to buy out the U.S. and Canadian rights to
the picture and terminate everyone else's participation for a payout that
included a guaranteed amount for the BACK END, as well as bonuses if the film
exceeded certain levels of U.S. box office performance.}}
1. The process ing of spent fuel from a nuclear reactor into reusable materials.
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[rear, back or invisible portion]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[computing: part of a system that is farthest from the user]
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- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] [slang]
- German: [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Persian: [fa]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [parasynonym]
[trans-bottom]
[latter end of any given time]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Russian: [ru]
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**** See also
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