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English

Etymology

flash +? back

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flæ?bæk/
• Hyphenation: flash?back

Noun

flashback (plural flashbacks)

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

   Synonym: analepsis

2. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs.

   Coordinate term: reminiscence

3. A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
4. The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
5. (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
   • 2004, Kevin Loney, Oracle Database 10g The Complete Reference (page 497)

     As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table flashbacks.

   • 2004, Gavin J. T. Powell, Carol McCullough-Dieter, Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples (page xxv)

     […] less used and specialized types of queries, including composite queries, hierarchical queries, version flashbacks, and parallel queries.

Derived terms

• (dramatic device): inception flashback
• (flame): flashback arrestor

Descendants

• ? German: Flashback
• ? Spanish: flashback
• ? Norwegian: flashback
• ? Portuguese: flashback

Translations

Verb

flashback (third-person singular simple present flashbacks, present participle flashbacking, simple past and past participle flashbacked)

1. (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

Synonyms

• flash back

See also

• flashforward

Further reading

• flashback (narrative) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• flashback (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• backflash, half-backs, halfbacks

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: flash?back

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)

1. flashback

Synonyms

• terugblik

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fl??.?b?k/, /?fl?.?i.?b?.ki/

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. (narratology) flashback (earlier event inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English flashback.

Noun

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. flashback

English

Etymology

From Middle English insight, insiht (“insight, mental vision, intelligence, understanding”), equivalent to in- +? sight. Perhaps continuing Old English insiht (“narrative, argument, account”), from Proto-Germanic *insahtiz (“account, narrative, argument”). Compare West Frisian ynsjoch (“insight”), Dutch inzicht (“insight, awareness, view, opinion”), German Low German Insicht (“insight”), German Einsicht (“insight, knowledge, perception, understanding”), Danish indsigt (“insight”), Swedish insikt (“insight”), Icelandic innsýn (“insight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n's?t, IPA^(key): /??nsa?t/

Noun

insight (countable and uncountable, plural insights)

1. A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; frequently used with into.
2. Power of acute observation and deduction

   Synonyms: penetration, discernment, perception

3. (marketing) Knowledge (usually derived from consumer understanding) that a company applies in order to make a product or brand perform better and be more appealing to customers
4. Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
5. (artificial intelligence) An extended understanding of a subject resulting from identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario.
6. (psychiatry) An individual's awareness of the nature and severity of one's mental illness.

Related terms

• outsight

Translations

Further reading

• insight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• insight in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tignish, histing, shiting, sight in, sithing