storeback

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noun

The back of a store or shop.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounstoreback (plural storebacks)

plural storebacks

  1. The back of a store or shop.

    Coop takes his own sweet time walking home along the alley between the storebacks and the railway embankment.

    2007, Steven Millhauser, Enchanted Night: A Novella
  2. computingThe storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.

    If this option is chosen, the processor must write the starting address for DMA to a special controller register before issuing the storeback instruction. Multiple storeback instructions can be issued for a single packet to scatter it to memory.

    1993, Proceedings of the ... ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming: PPOPP, ACM Press

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