flyback

The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.

Adjective

  1. Of a rabbit's fur: tending to spring back to its original position during stroking or brushing.
    • Short ears, wide heads, dense flyback fur and early developing. - 1950, Small Stock Magazine, page 45:
    • Exquisitely silky and intensely dense, not a flyback coat […] - 2013, George A. Townsend, Practical Rabbit Keeping:

Origin

From fly + back.

Noun

  1. The movement of the electron beam back to its initial position between scan lines in a cathode-ray tube display.
  2. A special kind of electrical transformer, originally designed to generate high-voltage sawtooth signals at a relatively high frequency, and now extensively used in switched-mode power supplies.

Forms

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