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reflag

reflag verb: to change the flag on a vessel, etc.

Verb

reflag (third-person singular simple present reflags, present participle reflagging, simple past and past participle reflagged)

  1. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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

Forms of reflag

third-person singular presentreflags
present participlereflagging
past participlereflagged
pastreflagged

Origin of reflag

From re- + flag.

Questions about reflag

What does reflag mean?
Reflag means to change the flag on a vessel, etc.
What part of speech is reflag?
Reflag is a verb.
What is the past tense of reflag?
The past tense of reflag is reflagged.

Words near reflag in the dictionary

  1. refixtured
  2. refixtures
  3. refixturing
  4. refl
  5. refl.
  6. reflag
  7. reflagellation
  8. reflagellations
  9. reflagged
  10. reflagging
  11. reflags

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