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backbone

 
Noun backbone has 4 senses
  1. anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin - a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
    --1 is a kind of support
  2. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption - fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
    --2 is a kind of fortitude
  3. spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis - the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
    --3 is a kind of skeletal structure
    --3 is a part of axial skeleton
    --3 has parts:
     spinal canal, vertebral canal, canalis vertebralis; coccyx, tail bone; vertebra; intervertebral disc, intervertebral disk
    --3 has particulars: notochord; chine
  4. backbone - the part of a network that connects other networks together; "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"
    --4 is a kind of
    connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
    --4 is a part of net, network, mesh, meshing, meshwork
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