Scrollback

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section. uncountable

    "The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer."

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backscrollbackscroll

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"The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer."

Etymology

From scroll + back.

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