English Dictionary

fallback

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɔːl.bæk/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

An act of falling back. / A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.

日本語の意味

後退、退却、引き返し / 予備策、バックアッププラン、代替案、緊急時の救済手段

When the enemy outflanked them, the commander ordered a fallback to the secondary position.

敵に側面を突かれたとき、指揮官は第二陣地への退却を命じた。

意味（1）

An act of falling back.

A failure of one of the rocket's first-stage engines just after liftoff would result in a destructive pad fallback.

意味（2）

A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.

As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails.

意味（3）

(construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.

意味（4）

Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

Particle size distributions of fallback and ejecta were determined principally by mechanical sieving and weighing.

fallbacks （ plural ）