Etymology

From back +‎ patchCategory:English compound terms#BACKPATCH.

Verb

backpatch (third-person singular simple present backpatches, present participle backpatching, simple past and past participle backpatched)Category:English lemmas#BACKPATCHCategory:English verbs#BACKPATCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BACKPATCHCategory:Pages with entries#BACKPATCHCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BACKPATCH

1. (computing theoryCategory:en:Theory of computing#BACKPATCH) To update (partially compiled code) with jump addresses that were previously left as placeholders because they had not yet been encountered in the source code.