Definitions

1. noun

A reference or link in a document, such as a web page, to another location within the same document.

“The programmer used a backpointer to link the table of contents to the corresponding sections of the webpage.”

2. noun

A type of pointer in computer science that points backward to a previous location in memory or a data structure.

“The algorithm used a backpointer to keep track of the previous node in the linked list.”