flashback

flash +‎ back

• IPA^(key): /ˈflæʃbæk/
• Hyphenation: flash‧back

flashback (plural flashbacks)

1. (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
2. (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma, especially one that recurs.
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.

• (dramatic device): analepsis

• (act of remembering): reminiscence

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

• German: Flashback

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.

• flash back

• flashforward

• backflash, half-backs, halfbacks

Borrowed from English flashback.

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: flash‧back

flashback m (plural flashbacks, diminutive flashbackje n)

1. flashback

• terugblik

Borrowed from English flashback.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌflɛʃ.ˈbɛk/, /ˌflɛ.ʃi.ˈbɛ.ki/

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

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

Borrowed from English flashback.

flashback m (plural flashbacks)

1. flashback