foldback

Definitions

• An overturned flap.
• A current-limiting feature in power supplies and amplifiers.
• (music) The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.
• (genetics) A denatured (single-strand) DNA molecule that has formed base pair bonds with itself.
• (genetics) A chromosome that contains sequences which support foldback; A DNA molecule with a base sequence or sequences that are repeated in reverse order.
• (RPG) A portion of a storyline that branches based on user choices but where all branches eventually reconverge to a single inevitable event.
• (social science) A multimethod research approach that includes open-ended interviewing, nominal group dialogue, survey and attitude scaling techniques, and multidimensional and cluster cluster analyses.