piggyback

adv 1: on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across

the country" [syn: {pickaback}, {pig-a-back}]

2: on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she

carried her child piggyback" [syn: {pickaback}, {pig-a-back}]

v 1: ride on someone's shoulders or back

2: haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars

3: haul by railroad car

4: carry on the back or shoulders; "She piggybacked a sick

classmate to school"

5: support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child

so she could see the show"

piggybacking

1. A method for passing {acknowledgement frame}s and {data

frame}s in the same direction along a line.

2. The practice of increasing memory capacity by soldering

chips on top of other chips. The chip-enable or high address

pins would be connected to the {address bus} by a flying lead.

Many {Ohio Superboard}s were expanded to a massive 8K of {RAM}

in this way.

(1994-11-29)