backtranslate

English

Verb

backtranslate (third-person singular simple present backtranslates, present participle backtranslating, simple past and past participle backtranslated)

1. To translate a translated text to its original language
   • 2021, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Plagiarism in Higher Education:

     There are those who put significant effort into retranslating and backtranslating work to avoid detection.

2. (biochemistry) To translate a protein's amino acid sequence to a nucleotide sequence

Related terms

• backtranslation