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resilver

resilver verb: to silver again.

Verb

resilver (third-person singular simple present resilvers, present participle resilvering, simple past and past participle resilvered)

  1. (transitive) To silver again.
    • It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision.1939, Popular Science, volume 134, number 2, page 261
  2. (transitive) To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.
    • To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time.2010, Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart, Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery

Forms of resilver

third-person singular presentresilvers
present participleresilvering
past participleresilvered
pastresilvered

Origin of resilver

From re- + silver.

Words formed from resilver

Questions about resilver

What does resilver mean?
Resilver means to silver again.
What part of speech is resilver?
Resilver is a verb.
What is the past tense of resilver?
The past tense of resilver is resilvered.

Words near resilver in the dictionary

  1. resiliometers
  2. resilition
  3. resilitions
  4. resilium
  5. resiluation
  6. resilver
  7. resilvered
  8. resilverer
  9. resilverers
  10. resilvering
  11. resilvers

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