reflow

English

From re- +‎ flow.

reflow (third-person singular simple present reflows, present participle reflowing, simple past and past participle reflowed)

(intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more.
The sea flows and reflows.
- 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 257:
  Such an act, you may conceive, had its due weight upon my feelings; but, alas! though it reminded me of the loss I had sustained, and caused my tears to reflow, the remains of my departed husband were not there,—they were left upon a foreign shore.
(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.

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.