back-channel in English

noun
1
a secondary or covert route for the passage of information.
the agency offered a reliable backchannel to Washington
2
a sound or gesture made to give continuity to a conversation by a person who is listening to another.
Amongst these are what have been characterised in the literature as backchannels , minimal response or receipt tokens, and include items such as Yeah, Oh, Right, and Great.

Use "back-channel" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "back-channel" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "back-channel", or refer to the context using the word "back-channel" in the English Dictionary.

1. Not even through that back channel?

2. There's speculation back home that the back channel is you.

3. Method, access point and terminal for feeding back channel state information parameters

4. There's a back-channel communications network the CIA used to use, called OPCOM.

5. The embodiment of the present invention can save the overhead for feeding back channel information.

6. Backchannel (third-person singular simple present Backchannels, present participle backchanneling or backchannelling, simple past and past participle backchanneled or backchannelled) To employ a back channel

7. Shellfishing and Clamming may be done on the Atlantic coast, in the Great Bay estuary, in the Hampton/Seabrook estuary, and in Little Harbor / Back Channel

8. Embodiments of the present invention provide a scheme for reducing feedback overhead when quantizing and feeding back channel state information in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system.