How to pronounce “flashback”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
• (psychology) A vivid mental image of a past trauma or other sensation that the trauma is happening in the present, especially one that recurs.
• A similar recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug.
• The condition of the flame propagating down the hose of an oxy-fuel welding system.
• (databases) A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
• [Verb]
• (intransitive) To undergo a flashback; to experience a vivid mental image from the past.

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