An injury-time goal from Nikola Zigic against an obdurate Stoke side gave Birmingham back-to back Premier League wins for the first time in 14 months.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC:
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With one's back facing that of somebody else.
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Natural sciences, Physical sciences, PhysicsBroadly Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
Seen in laboratory frame the photon-jet pair is not any longer back-to-back and the energy balance is distorted.2009, R. Fiore, Alessandro Papa, Igor Ivanov, Jacques Soffer, Diffraction 2008: International Workshop on Diffraction in High Energy Physics, Amer Inst of Physics:
This produces two back-to-back jets of hadrons that dominate the inclusive high energy cross-section.2000, S. Söldner-Rembold, Photon '99: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Structure and Interactions of the Photon, Including the 12th International Workshop on Photon-Photon Collisions, Freiburg, Germany, 23-27 May 1999:
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Photons at leading order are produced back-to-back with an associated parton with nearly identical transverse momenta.2015, Thomas Schörner-Sadenius, The Large Hadron Collider: Harvest of Run 1, Springer, →ISBN, page 392:
In the rest frame of the #92;pi⁰ the photons emerge back-to-back isotropically.1992, David Shaw Brown, A Comparison of High Transverse Momentum Direct Photon and Neutral Pion Events in Negative Pion and Proton-nucleus Collisions at 31.5 GeV Center of Mass Energy:
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Of a house Having a party wall at the rear.
We lived in a row of back-to-back houses.
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Card games, PokerSlang Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
back-to-back
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A house with a party wall at the rear.
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One of a pair of rig workers who are rostered on alternately.
"He's been standing-by in town for the last week, talk to his back-to-back on the rig in the morning." ("Back-to-back" is the man on the rig who does your job when you're not there.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 101:
back to back
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With one's back facing that of somebody else.
Stand back to back so that we can see which of you is taller.
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Consecutively; one after the other.
We can't watch these films back to back! That's just way too much for one night.