plural of backward integration

(business) The takeover of a supplier of goods by the retailer that stocks those goods.

To derive a process, rationale, etc. from its conclusions or results.

(India) Any of the castes officially recognised by the government as being educationally and socially disadvantaged.

plural of other backward class

(rare) Alternative form of backwards time machine

plural of backward time machine

(UK, typically in the negative) shy; reluctant to share one's views

An inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions. It uses dynamic programming to compute the values in two passes, the first going forward in time and the second backward.

(simile, UK, informal, humorous) To look extremely disheveled.