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Meaning of "backchannel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BACKCHANNEL

backchannel  [ˈbækˌtʃænəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BACKCHANNEL

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Backchannel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BACKCHANNEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Backchannel

Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside the primary group activity or live spoken remarks. The term was coined in the field of Linguistics to describe listeners' behaviours during verbal communication. The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversation about the conference topic or speaker. Occasionally backchannel provides audience members a chance to fact-check the presentation. First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where WiFi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat like IRC or AIM to actively communicate during class. More recently, researchers from Penn State University have explored bringing "backchannel" up front in classrooms - "ClassCommons, " to increase students' participation and promote community building in classrooms. Twitter is also widely used today by audiences to create backchannels at technology conferences. When audience members add an event hashtag to their tweets, anyone can run a Twitter search to review all the backchannel tweets related to that event.

Definition of backchannel in the English dictionary

The definition of backchannel in the dictionary is an unofficial or covert means of conveying information, originally or especially in political or diplomatic circles.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BACKCHANNEL


annal
ˈænəl
branle
ˈbrænəl
cannel
ˈkænəl
channel
ˈtʃænəl
co-channel
ˈkəʊˌtʃænəl
empanel
ɪmˈpænəl
fannel
ˈfænəl
flannel
ˈflænəl
impanel
ɪmˈpænəl
interchannel
ˌɪntəˈtʃænəl
multichannel
ˌmʌltɪˈtʃænəl
panel
ˈpænəl
rechannel
riːˈtʃænəl
repanel
riːˈpænəl
scrannel
ˈskrænəl
subpanel
ˈsʌbˌpænəl
unpanel
ʌnˈpænəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BACKCHANNEL

backblocker
backblocks
backboard
backbond
backbone
backboneless
backbreaker
backbreaking
backburn
backcast
backchat
backcheck
backcloth
backcomb
backcourt
backcourtman
backcross
backdate
backdoor
backdown

WORDS THAT END LIKE BACKCHANNEL

Bristol Channel
Canton flannel
cotton flannel
cross-Channel
distribution channel
drainage channel
English Channel
face flannel
green channel
Kos Channel
Mozambique Channel
North Channel
pay-cable channel
personnel
red channel
Saint George´s Channel
shipping channel
shopping channel
swash channel
the Channel

Synonyms and antonyms of backchannel in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «backchannel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BACKCHANNEL

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The translations of backchannel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «backchannel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

反向通道
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

backchannel
570 millions of speakers

English

backchannel
510 millions of speakers

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backchannel
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

باكشانيل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

backchannel
278 millions of speakers

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backchannel
270 millions of speakers

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backchannel
260 millions of speakers

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backchannel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Backchannel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rückkanal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バックチャネル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

백 채널
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Backchannel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

backchannel
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பின்புல ஆதரவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॅकचैनल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

arka kanal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

back-channel
65 millions of speakers

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backchannel
50 millions of speakers

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backchannel
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

backchannel
30 millions of speakers
el

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backchannel
15 millions of speakers
af

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backchannel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

backchannel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

backchannel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of backchannel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BACKCHANNEL»

The term «backchannel» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.635 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BACKCHANNEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «backchannel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «backchannel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about backchannel

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BACKCHANNEL»

Discover the use of backchannel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to backchannel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social ...
In this book, communications consultant Cliff Atkinson shows that if these new kinds of audience participation are embraced and the conversations properly handled, the outcome can be a new, more effective form of communicating.
Cliff Atkinson, 2009
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Computational Model of Listener Behavior for Embodied ...
is used to decides if a backchannel request, sent by the Backchannel Trigger module, is actually generated. When a user's behavior satisfies one of the rules seen in Section 7.3.1, a backchannel is triggered. The Backchannel Emission ...
Elisabetta Bevacqua, 2010
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Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: 20th Irish ...
Using SoSAA, we have designed and implemented a backchannel management service that consists of an infrastructure agent, known as the Transport Manager ( TM) and a set of adaptor components that implement the data transfer ...
Lorcan Coyle, Jill Freyne, 2010
4
Backchannel: Bush, Sharon and the Uses of Unilateralism
While Sharon and Bush tried to replace what they saw as defeatist, timid thinking with bold action, in the end, a solution still eludes Israel, the United States and the Middle East" -- Conclusion (p.56)
Nahum Barnea, Ariel Kastner, Brookings Institution. Saban Center for Middle East Policy, 2006
5
Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, ...
When a backchannel is triggered, the response/reactive backchannel, and mimicry modules compute which type of backchannel should be displayed. The response/reactive backchannel module uses information about the agent's beliefs ...
Yorick Wilks, 2010
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Towards Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal ...
This certainly holds true for backchannel responses. In most situations, there is nothing wrong with missing a backchannel opportunity. When one is using a multimodal corpus to train a model for predicting the timing of backchannel continuers ...
Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Raffaele Martone, 2011
7
A Genre Based Approach to Daytime Talk on Television
Function of backchannels The term backchannel was introduced by Yngve (1970 ) to denote messages such as mm-hmm and head nods from the auditor. Fries ( 1952) had already defined their function as items that "simply serve to give ...
Carme Gregori Signes, 2000
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Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and ...
This component encompasses two modules called response/reactive backchannel and mimicry. Research has shown that there is a strong correlation between backchannel signals and the verbal and nonverbal behaviors performed by the ...
Anna Esposito, Nick Campbell, Carl Vogel, 2010
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Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, ...
While listening to a user, an ECA should be able to provide backchannel signals through visual and acoustic modalities. In this work we propose an improvement of our previous system to generate multimodal backchannel signals on visual ...
Jan Allbeck, Norman Badler, Timothy Bickmore, 2010
10
Language and Gender in the Military
In the previous excerpt, Major Light utters a very common backchannel response: “Mmhmm” (line 60). We saw a similar case of the backchannel in the first excerpt we examined in this chapter, in which Major Cardiff utters “mmhmm” in ...
Edith A. Disler

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BACKCHANNEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term backchannel is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hamas, Hezbollah, Revolutionary Guards said to meet in Beirut
The two were expected to discuss Hamas's reported backchannel talks with Israel over a long-term ceasefire. Hezbollah leader Hassan ... «The Times of Israel, Jul 15»
2
Williston sewage lagoon overtaxed by growing population
While the backchannel of the Missouri River is hurt by the wastewater, the effects decrease in the main river channels, Ryckman said. «Grand Forks Herald, Jul 15»
3
Digital Tools to Make Your Next Meeting More Productive
A backchannel chat (using a tool like Skype or Google Hangouts) provides a way of discreetly asking someone to let the conversation move ... «blogs.hbr.org, Jul 15»
4
We Need A Law That Bans Killer Robots
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Wendell Wallach Wendell Wallach «Backchannel, Jun 15»
5
Introducing the Apple Watch Project
Hello, good Backchannel readers. I want to clue you in on a side project we're working on that involves a wearable device you might have ... «Backchannel, Jun 15»
6
The Portrait of a Future Leader
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Anne Loehr Anne Loehr on Jun 18 7 min. M Haidar ... «Backchannel, Jun 15»
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The Only Internet Most Cubans Know Fits in a Pocket and Moves by …
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Susan Crawford Susan Crawford «Backchannel, Jun 15»
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How Google Is Taking Search Outside the Box
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Steven Levy Steven Levy on Jun 5 9 min. Ravinder ... «Backchannel, Jun 15»
9
Bradley Horowitz Says That Google Photos is Gmail for Your Images.
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Steven Levy Steven Levy on May ... «Backchannel, May 15»
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Rob Glaser Gets Real
Homepage · Backchannel · Published in Backchannel · Sign in / Sign up · Backchannel · Go to the profile of Steven Levy Steven Levy on May ... «Backchannel, May 15»

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