Meaning & use
Backfills
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Fills in a previously dug hole or excavation with soil or material, or, by extension, adds missing information retroactively to complete a record.
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The crew backfills the trench once the new pipe is in place.
The app automatically backfills older transactions when you first connect your bank account.
A note on using this word
The construction sense is the original one; the data-related sense became common with the rise of software that retroactively populates historical records.
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2. noun
Material used to fill an excavation, or a batch of retroactively added data.
The engineers used gravel as backfill around the foundation.
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