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Capitulate vs Backoff - What's the difference?

capitulate | backoff |

As a verb capitulate

is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

As a noun backoff is

the situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.

capitulate

English

Verb

(capitulat)
  • (obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  • (obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
  • * Heylin
    • there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
  • To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
    • He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .

    Synonyms

    * wave the white flag

    Related terms

    * chapiter * chapter * capital * capitalism * captain * capitulation * capitulatory * recapitulate

    backoff

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
    • a backoff strategy to avoid collisions