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rebase

rebase verb: to replace the base of a denture.

Verb

rebase (third-person singular simple present rebases, present participle rebasing, simple past and past participle rebased)

  1. To replace the base of a denture.
  2. To modify core data from which other data is derived in such a way that the final meaning is unchanged.
  3. (transitive) 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. (source control) To integrate changes by appending them to another commit or branch, rather than pulling or merging in changes from a branch.

Forms of rebase

third-person singular presentrebases
present participlerebasing
past participlerebased
pastrebased

Origin of rebase

From re- + base.

Questions about rebase

What does rebase mean?
Rebase means to replace the base of a denture.
What part of speech is rebase?
Rebase is a verb.
What is the past tense of rebase?
The past tense of rebase is rebased.

Words near rebase in the dictionary

  1. rebars
  2. rebarter
  3. rebartered
  4. rebartering
  5. rebarters
  6. rebase
  7. rebased
  8. rebaseline
  9. rebaselined
  10. rebaselines
  11. rebaselining

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