Home › Words › F › flybackflybackflyback means of a rabbit's fur: tending to spring back to its original position during stroking or brushing.EtymologyFrom fly + back.adjOf a rabbit's fur: tending to spring back to its original position during stroking or brushing.e.g.“Short ears, wide heads, dense flyback fur and early developing.” — 1950, Small Stock Magazine, page 45:nounThe movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.retrace 75% match — To trace (a line, etc. in drawing) again. vs flyback →brightup 60% match — A pulse of the beam (cathode ray) in a cathode ray tube that causes a blank screen to fluoresce. vs flyback →backscan 57% match — A scan from the back or rear side. vs flyback →failback 55% match — The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred). vs flyback →backscattering 54% match — The scattering of waves, particles, or signals back in the direction of their source. vs flyback →descan 53% match — To reverse the path of emission from a specimen to the sensor in a microscope scan. vs flyback →callback 52% match — The return of a situation to a previous position or state; a reference to such a position or state. vs flyback →back 51% match — At or near the rear. vs flyback →