fall back : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fall back	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fall back
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fall back v fall backwards and down hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. Synonym(s): lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind move back and away from; "The enemy fell back" retreat Synonym(s): fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede Antonym(s): advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win have recourse to; "The government resorted to rationing meat" Synonym(s): fall back, resort, recur go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals" Synonym(s): relapse, lapse, recidivate, regress, retrogress, fall back
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
fall back A feature of a {modem} {protocol} where two modems which experience data corruption, e.g. due to line noise, can renegotiate to use a lower speed connection. See also {fall forward}.