reprogramming

noun — 3 senses

reprogramming

noun
1

The act by which something is reprogrammed.

  • Though some of my adaptations are deliberate, […] most have occurred by themselves, unconsciously, by reprogrammings and adaptations of which I know nothing […]1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The process of changing the programming of a system or device

3

Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The erasure and reestablishment of DNA methylation during mammalian development

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