reroll

present singular third person rerolls · participle present rerolling · participle past rerolled · past rerolled · alternative re-roll

1. transitiveTo roll, or roll out, again.

   to reroll steel

2. ambitransitivediceTo roll (dice) again.

   You can reroll if you don't like your character's initial stats.

   2 more examples

   A player who rolls two sixes can reroll the dice for an additional turn.

   [T]he others worked preparing breakfast and re-rolling swags.

   1963, Arthur Upfield, The Lake Frome Monster, London: Pan Books, published 1969, page 21

3. transitivecomputingTo convert (an unrolled instruction sequence) back into a loop.

   Their procedure is to unroll the loop once, trace schedule the two iterations, and then reroll the loop into one.

   2012, Monica S. Lam, A Systolic Array Optimizing Compiler, page 143

4. gamesTo try again for a different result.

plural rerolls · alternative re-roll

1. diceA situation in the rules of certain dice games where a player is given the option to reroll an undesirable roll of the dice.