ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Backtranslate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Backtranslate is a verb meaning To translate a translated text to its original language.

Meaning

To translate a translated text to its original language.

More Meanings

  1. (biochemistry) To translate a protein's amino acid sequence to a nucleotide sequence

Example Sentences

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

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include back-translate, retransliterate, cotranslate, transverbate, retransduce, transcreate.

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