fallback

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating in a relatively closed container.
• Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.

Adjective

• That can be resorted to as a fallback.

Verb

• Misspelling of fall back

Related

Similar words

• ebbing, recession, retreat
• back-up/backup, plan B, recourse
• alternate/alternative, back-up/backup, secondary

Narrower meaning words

• automatic fallback
• modulation fallback

Origin

• From the verb fall back.