ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hand-off

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hand-off is a noun meaning (American football) A pass made in a backward direction.

Meaning

(American football) A pass made in a backward direction.

More Meanings

  1. (business) The passing of a completed project to another person or group.
  2. (rugby) The act of pushing an opponent away with an open hand.
  3. (computing) The transfer of control to another subsystem.
  4. (aviation) The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's airspace and radio communications with the aircraft are transferred.

Example Sentences

Vertex shaders are algorithms that transform the vertex information stored in the model before handoff to the rasterizer.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include handoff, snap, lateral, layback, offload, backpass.

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