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hard-resetting

hard-resetting is the present participle and gerund of hard-reset.

Meaning of hard-reset

Verb

hard-reset (third-person singular simple present hard-resets, present participle hard-resetting, simple past and past participle hard-reset)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To perform a forceful restart or reinitialization of a device, system, or process, typically by cutting power, or using a dedicated button.
    • Do not hard reset the computer while you're using a disk caching program!1993, Ron Dippold, Windows Secrets, page 155
  2. (transitive, uncommon) To factory reset a device.
    • As soon as I pulled back onto the road I realized my one grave mistake: hard resetting the Zumo had erased everything that was stored in the system; gone was my tiny blue track that had followed me for months; gone were my trip statistics - all gone.2025, Ben Myburgh, The $500 Bet and How I Met My Father

Questions about hard-resetting

What is hard-resetting the present participle and gerund of?
Hard-resetting is the present participle and gerund of hard-reset.

Words near hard-resetting in the dictionary

  1. hard-paste
  2. hard-pressed
  3. hard-r
  4. hard-reset
  5. hard-resets
  6. hard-resetting
  7. hard-right
  8. hard-rs
  9. hard-run
  10. hard-scrabble
  11. hard-sectored

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