Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of a flame which is consuming a combustible gas, to move back through the current of gas and burn at a point farther back than is desired.

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Examples

  • Some had protested that the initial hari kiri scene was too long -- hence difficult to watch as opposed to the second half of the film, the backflash, which becomes an intense emotional family drama, filmed beautifully in a forest hut, behind dense green foliage the only time, for me, that the 3-D actually works rather than distracts.

    Karin Badt: Cannes 2011: Director Takashi Miike Speaks About Samurai Ritual Suicide Karin Badt 2011

  • When you finally got blood from the hard stickYou spotted the backflash of redAnd said Thank God.

    The Stick Zackary Sholem Berger 2011

  • Some had protested that the initial hari kiri scene was too long -- hence difficult to watch as opposed to the second half of the film, the backflash, which becomes an intense emotional family drama, filmed beautifully in a forest hut, behind dense green foliage the only time, for me, that the 3-D actually works rather than distracts.

    Karin Badt: Cannes 2011: Director Takashi Miike Speaks About Samurai Ritual Suicide Karin Badt 2011

  • How to create a film playing after the backflash scenes in Ultimatum without Damon?

    Damon Says Next Bourne Might Be a Prequel Without Him « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • I feel mired in the past just reading it, it is a backflash of what's wrong.

    Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low 2009

  • It seemed as though they had ridden through eternity, through a rainstorm that, paradoxically, had relieved the worst of the chaos backflash agony.

    The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • There was, of course, practically no chance of keeping Ullerans from having native weapons, swords, knives, even bows and air-rifles, and a certain number of Volund-made trade-quality automatic pistols could be expected, but most of the fire was coming from military rifles, and now and then he could see the furnace-like backflash of a recoilless rifle or a bazooka, or the steady flicker of a machine-gun.

    Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

  • There was, of course, practically no chance of keeping Ullerans from having native weapons, swords, knives, even bows and air-rifles, and a certain number of Volund-made trade-quality automatic pistols could be expected, but most of the fire was coming from military rifles, and now and then he could see the furnace-like backflash of a recoilless rifle or a bazooka, or the steady flicker of a machine-gun.

    Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

  • This is designed to eliminate backflash down the fuel line and keep the torch head cool.

    ScubaBoard 2010

  • The DP-64 system designed by Bazalt is a grenade launcher that shoots like an assault rifle - it does not produce the jet steam backflash.

    Pravda.Ru 2009

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