the fast return of the spot on a cathode-ray tube after completion of each trace
flyback in American English
(ˈflaiˌbæk)
noun
Electronics
the return to its starting point of the electron beam in a cathode ray tube, as after the completion of a line in a television picture or of a trace inan oscilloscope
Word origin
[1930–35; n. use of v. phrase fly back]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cloverleaf, hypercorrection, kickback, old school tie, saddle stitch
Examples of 'flyback' in a sentence
flyback
This flyback chronograph version is one of its many variations.