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scrollback en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From scroll + back.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The part of a scrolling display that precedes the current line or section.
    • New communications documents are set for a scrollback area of unlimited size […] 1995, Charles Rubin, The Macintosh bible guide to ClarisWorks 4:
    • The program can hold as many as 5000 lines of a session in a scrollback buffer. 1993 April, InfoWorld, volume 15, number 15:
    • The scrollback buffer allows you to scroll back and review earlier commands and command output. 2005, Dave Taylor, Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Tiger:
  2. (broadly, uncountable) The part of an online discussion in a scrollable chat that a participants reads to catch up to the more recent discussion.

Synonyms

backscroll