reprogramming

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noun

The act by which something is reprogrammed.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reprogram
  2. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reprogramme
nounreprogramming (countable and uncountable, plural reprogrammings)

plural reprogrammings

  1. countableuncountableThe act by which something is reprogrammed.

    Though some of my adaptations are deliberate, […] most have occurred by themselves, unconsciously, by reprogrammings and adaptations of which I know nothing […]

    1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars
  2. countableuncountablecomputingThe process of changing the programming of a system or device
  3. countableuncountablebiochemistryThe erasure and reestablishment of DNA methylation during mammalian development
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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