backlash

1. n. The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Source: opted

2. n. a movement back from an impact Source: wordnet

3. n. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence Source: wordnet

4. v. come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect Source: wordnet

5. The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Source: webster

6. The distance through which one part of connected machinery, asa wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connectedparts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, thejarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery byirregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion. Source: adambom

7. v:5/n:95 n. an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence Source: ecdict

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