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back-translation

Noun

Meaning

(translation studies, uncountable) The activity of translating a previously translated document back into the original language.

(translation studies, countable) A text which has been translated in such a fashion

(genetics) The translation of an amino acid sequence into genetic code

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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; nom de plume : originally a "back-translation" from the English "pen name": author's pseudonym. ; nouveau (pl. Source: Internet

Some made their first appearance in English in the 1820s as a result of back-translation from Dumont's 1802 collection (and redaction) of Bentham's writing on civil and penal legislation. Source: Internet

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