reprogramming

English

Verb

reprogramming

1. present participle of reprogram
2. present participle of reprogramme

Noun

reprogramming (countable and uncountable, plural reprogrammings)

1. The act by which something is reprogrammed.
   • 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:

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

2. (computing) The process of changing the programming of a system or device
3. (biochemistry) The erasure and reestablishment of DNA methylation during mammalian development