Word: backstepping
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: back
ste
pping
Definition: A technique for designing stabilizing controls for a special recursive class of nonlinear dynamical systems.
Morphemes:
Affix: back
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
Affix: step
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.