Meaning of Backtracking | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of one who, or that which, backtracks; a retracing of one's steps.
   countable, uncountable
2. The usage of a runway as a taxiway, especially at private strips and smaller airports.
   countable, uncountable
3. The act of building all possible solutions to a problem incrementally, abandoning any candidate solution if it cannot lead to a valid solution.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“backtracking algorithm”

“Backtracking is used to solve problems in which a sequence of objects is chosen from a specific set so that the sequence satisfies some criterion. The classic example of the use of backtracking is the n-Queens problem.”

“This grammar only uses tokens and rules, so there is no backtracking involved, and the grammar is a predictive parser. This is fairly typical. Many grammars work fine without backtracking, or with backtracking in just a few places.”

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