storeback

English

Etymology

store +‎ back

Noun

storeback (plural storebacks)

1. The back of a store or shop.
   • 2007, Steven Millhauser, Enchanted Night: A Novella‎^[1]:

     Coop takes his own sweet time walking home along the alley between the storebacks and the railway embankment.

2. (computing) The storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.
   • 1993, Proceedings of the ... ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming: PPOPP‎^[2], ACM Press:

     If this option is chosen, the processor must write the starting address for DMA to a special controller register before issuing the storeback instruction. Multiple storeback instructions can be issued for a single packet to scatter it to memory.

Anagrams

• backstore