backreference (English, verb)
expansion: backreference (third-person singular simple present backreferences, present participle backreferencing, simple past and past participle backreferenced)
Senses:
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: backreferences
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backreferencing
tags: participle
present
form: backreferenced
tags: participle
past
form: backreferenced
tags: past
form: back-reference
tags: alternative