(telecommunications) In radio communications, the link from a fixed location (e.g., a base station) to a mobile user. If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the forward link will consist of both an uplink (base station to satellite) and a downlink (satellite to mobile user).

(historical) A vast economic and social plan lasting from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use the Chinese population to rapidly transform the Communist China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through agriculturalization and industrialization, but failed disastrously (resulting in massive famine and the deaths of many millions of people).

plural of forward time machine

(science fiction) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.

plural of forward transfer function

(UK, typically in the negative) shy; reluctant to share one's views

An inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions. It uses dynamic programming to compute the values in two passes, the first going forward in time and the second backward.

The transfer function of the forward path of a control system

(idiomatic, transitive)To change the time in a time zone to a later time.

plural of illegal forward kick