reflow
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
reflow (third-person singular simple present reflows, present participle reflowing, simple past and past participle reflowed)
- (intransitive) To flow back again.
- The sea flows and reflows.
- (transitive, chiefly engineering) To 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.
- (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
- 2008, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects
- 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
Noun[edit]
reflow (plural reflows)
- A flowing back again.
- the flow and reflow of the tide
- (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.