reflow

present singular third person reflows · participle present reflowing · participle past reflowed · past reflowed

1. intransitiveTo flow back again; to flow once more.

   The sea flows and reflows.

   1 more example

   Such an act, you may conceive, had its due weight upon my feelings; but, alas! though it reminded me of the loss I had sustained, and caused my tears to reflow, the remains of my departed husband were not there,—they were left upon a foreign shore.

   1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 257

2. transitiveengineeringTo cause to flow again, to remelt.

   Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.

3. transitivecomputingTo modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.

   The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.

   2008, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects

plural reflows

1. A flowing back again.

   the flow and reflow of the tide

2. computingThe process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.