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reroll

reroll verb: to roll, or roll out, again.

Verb

reroll (third-person singular simple present rerolls, present participle rerolling, simple past and past participle rerolled)

  1. (transitive) To roll, or roll out, again.
    • to reroll steel
  2. (ambitransitive) To roll (dice) again.
    • A player who rolls two sixes can reroll the dice for an additional turn.
    • You can reroll if you don't like your character's initial stats.
  3. (transitive) To convert (an unrolled instruction sequence) back into a loop.
    • Their procedure is to unroll the loop once, trace schedule the two iterations, and then reroll the loop into one.2012, Monica S. Lam, A Systolic Array Optimizing Compiler, page 143
  4. To try again for a different result.

Noun

reroll (plural rerolls)

  1. A situation in the rules of certain dice games where a player is given the option to reroll an undesirable roll of the dice.

Forms of reroll

Verb
third-person singular presentrerolls
present participlererolling
past participlererolled
pastrerolled
alternative formre-roll
Noun
pluralrerolls

Origin of reroll

From re- + roll.

Words formed from reroll

Questions about reroll

What does reroll mean?
Reroll means to roll, or roll out, again.
What part of speech is reroll?
Reroll can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of reroll?
The past tense of reroll is rerolled.

Words near reroll in the dictionary

  1. rerocks
  2. rerole
  3. reroled
  4. reroles
  5. reroling
  6. reroll
  7. rerollable
  8. rerollables
  9. rerolled
  10. reroller
  11. rerollers

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