Storeback

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    The 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."

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

From store + back.

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