seatback

or seat back

[ seet-bak ]

noun

1. the back support of a seat in an aircraft, motor vehicle, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seatback¹

First recorded in 1870–75; seat + back ¹( def )

Example Sentences

With two concerts over this past weekend, the Eagles became the fourth act to play this state-of-the-art venue — after U2, Phish and Dead & Company — just behind the Venetian resort on the Las Vegas Strip; by now you’ve heard about Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot video screen and about its seatback haptics and about the $2 billion the building’s mastermind, Madison Square Garden Entertainment Chief Executive James Dolan, spent to bring it all to life almost exactly a year ago.

From Los Angeles Times

The venue’s sound system was just as impressive, with a finely detailed mix and seatback haptics that allowed you literally to feel the oomph of bassist Mike Gordon’s low notes.

From Los Angeles Times

The distance from a seatback to the one in front or behind it - airlines call that “pitch” - used to measure about 35 inches; now it’s 28 inches on some airlines and 31 or 32 inches on others.

From Washington Times

The distance from a seatback to the one in front or behind it — airlines call that “pitch” — used to measure about 35 inches; now it’s 28 inches on some airlines and 31 or 32 inches on others.

From Seattle Times

They were as lost to me as the confessional journal I once left in the seatback of a plane.

From New York Times