reflag

verb — 2 senses

reflag

verb

Etymology From re- + flag.

1

To change the flag on a vessel, etc.

  • The Navy assumed responsibility for escorting the reflagged tankers in the Gulf and through the perilous Strait of Hormuz...1996, Robert Timberg, The nightingale's song:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To flag (mark with a variable) again or differently.

  • In addition, it is only necessary to reflag the cells that lie along the free surface and some of their neighbor cells in each computational step.1991, Luiz C Wrobel, C A Brebbia, Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems: Fluid flow:

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