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reflow

reflow verb: to flow back again; to flow once more.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more.
    • The sea flows and reflows.
    • 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.1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 257
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
    • The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.2008, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects

Noun

reflow (plural reflows)

  1. A flowing back again.
    • the flow and reflow of the tide
  2. The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.

reflow meaning in Bengali

reflow in Bengali

পুনরায় প্রবাহিত হওয়া, আবার প্রবাহিত হওয়া

Forms of reflow

Verb
third-person singular presentreflows
present participlereflowing
past participlereflowed
pastreflowed
Noun
pluralreflows

Origin of reflow

From re- + flow.

Words formed from reflow

Questions about reflow

What does reflow mean?
Reflow means to flow back again; to flow once more.
What is reflow in Bengali?
Reflow in Bengali is পুনরায় প্রবাহিত হওয়া, আবার প্রবাহিত হওয়া. See Reflow meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is reflow?
Reflow can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of reflow?
The past tense of reflow is reflowed.

Words near reflow in the dictionary

  1. reflourished
  2. reflourishes
  3. reflourishing
  4. reflourishment
  5. reflours
  6. reflow
  7. reflowable
  8. reflowed
  9. reflower
  10. reflowered
  11. reflowering

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reflow (page history and authors); reflow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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