rebase

verb — 4 senses

rebase

verb

Etymology From re- + base.

1

Dentistry, Medicine, Sciences To replace the base of a denture.

2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To modify core data from which other data is derived in such a way that the final meaning is unchanged.

3

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To change the base address of.

  • When a DLL must be loaded at an address different from its preferred address (because the preferred address is unavailable), the kernel must rebase the DLL, which consists of updating (fixing up) all addresses in the DLL so that they refer to its new location in memory.2006, Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing:
4

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To integrate changes by appending them to another commit or branch, rather than pulling or merging in changes from a branch.

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