resilver

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verb

To silver again.

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Meanings

verbresilver (third-person singular simple present resilvers, present participle resilvering, simple past and past participle resilvered)

present singular third person resilvers · participle present resilvering · participle past resilvered · past resilvered

  1. transitiveTo silver again.

    It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision.

    1939, Popular Science, volume 134, number 2, page 261
  2. transitivecomputingTo synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.

    To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time.

    2010, Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart, Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

Origin

From re- + silver.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

silverersliverer
Cite this entry
APA

resilver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resilver

MLA

“resilver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resilver. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “resilver,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/resilver.

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