"backpatch" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "back + patch",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From back + patch.",
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    {
      "form": "backpatches",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backpatching",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backpatched",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backpatched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Theory of computing",
          "orig": "en:Theory of computing",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code."
      ],
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
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        [
          "theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "compile",
          "compile"
        ],
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
        [
          "jump",
          "jump"
        ],
        [
          "address",
          "address"
        ],
        [
          "placeholder",
          "placeholder"
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        [
          "source code",
          "source code"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing theory) To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code."
      ],
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        "computing",
        "computing-theory",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "backpatch"
}

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        "2": "back",
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      "expansion": "back + patch",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From back + patch.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "backpatches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backpatching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "backpatched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "backpatched",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code."
      ],
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        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "theory",
          "theory"
        ],
        [
          "compile",
          "compile"
        ],
        [
          "code",
          "code"
        ],
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          "jump",
          "jump"
        ],
        [
          "address",
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          "placeholder",
          "placeholder"
        ],
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          "source code",
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        "(computing theory) To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code."
      ],
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        "computing",
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