| 释义 |
reformat, v. (Formerly at re- 5 a.) Chiefly Computing.|riːˈfɔːmæt|
[f. re- 5 a + format v.]
trans. To make (data, etc.) conform again to a particular format; to revise or represent in another format (occas. const. into, to).
1967Cox & Grose Organization Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 88 The user may initially employ his own Preprocessor to edit and reformat his data prior to entering it into the system. 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 214 The cards were built onto a disk file by a program that reformatted the material into fixed-length records. 1982Papers Dict. Soc. N. Amer. 1979 139 Computer-stored dictionaries can be updated and reprinted, or extracted and reformatted. 1985Personal Computer World Feb. 173/3 As text is entered, inserted and deleted, WordStar 2000 automatically reformats text to the current margins.
Hence reˈformatting vbl. n.
1967Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer v. 114 An experimental vehicle..for on-line computer-aided editing and reformatting of MARC records. 1983Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 40/3 The combination of the mouse and keyboard allows fast selection, editing and reformatting of text. |