storeback

English

Etymology

store +‎ back

Noun

storeback (plural storebacks)

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

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