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back-end

(băk′ĕnd′)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the final phase of a project or process: back-end charges.
2. Of or relating to the part of a software system or online service that the user does not interact with and that is usually accessible only to programmers or administrators: back-end software.
3. Of or relating to the internal operations of an organization that are not accessible or visible to the general public: back-end logistics.

back end n.
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Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
* The buyer defers making most or all purchase payments for the equity until stage two, which is the earlier of a trigger or the contractual back-end date.
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Our hypothesis is, with minimal federal or other outside funding, a conglomeration of open source developers would be able to produce the ultimate back-end EHR database.
To get its telematics venture off the ground, International chose IBM to orchestrate an end-to-end solution that included tapping telematics infrastructure service provider Wireless Car (Irvine, CA) for information capture and transmission, and setting up back-end servers based on IBM's Websphere architecture.
The product includes predefined modules such as contacts, opportunities, reporting and forecast and integrates with virtually any back-end application, including popular CRM systems such as Siebel, SAP, SalesLogix and custom legacy systems.
Persist was founded last year, and emerged from stealth only this summer with front-end archiving software and a grid-style back-end disk array.