verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To translate a translated text to its original language

   "There are those who put significant effort into retranslating and backtranslating work to avoid detection."

2. 2
   To translate a protein's amino acid sequence to a nucleotide sequence

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"There are those who put significant effort into retranslating and backtranslating work to avoid detection."

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