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resilvering

resilvering is the present participle and gerund of resilver.

Meaning of resilver

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

Questions about resilvering

What is resilvering the present participle and gerund of?
Resilvering is the present participle and gerund of resilver.

Words near resilvering in the dictionary

  1. resiluation
  2. resilver
  3. resilvered
  4. resilverer
  5. resilverers
  6. resilvering
  7. resilvers
  8. resimercial
  9. resimmer
  10. resimmered
  11. resimmering

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