retangle

present singular third person retangles · participle present retangling · participle past retangled · past retangled

1. To tangle again.

   The aligned molecules try to retangle themselves and if this is hindered additional normal stresses arise.

   2019, Joseph H. Spurk, Nuri Aksel, Fluid Mechanics, page 89

   2 more examples

   In the full picture of American politics as an ongoing process, its two styles tangle and retangle nearly constantly, often quietly and merely misleadingly, but sometimes fiercely, with results that can be exciting, embarrassing, bizarre, tragic, or all these in combination.

   1998, H. Roelofs, The Poverty of American Politics, page 86

   We know that mycorrhizal fungi form and re-form their connections with plants, tangling, detangling and retangling.

   2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 190