recomputev.
/ˌriːkəmˈpjuːt/, U.S. /ˌrikəmˈpjut/ transitive. To recalculate; to compute again.
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1740 C. Brent Compend. Astronomer 161 Which said Example is therefore re-computed from the Chronologer.
1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 184 To satisfy myself more fully of the accuracy of my work, I this day re~computed the whole.
1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 2) I. p. iv Re-computing the examples, and rendering them more correct in the numbers.
1880 S. Haughton Six Lect. Physical Geogr. iv. 198 I have recomputed the areas of the rain-basins of the Ganges..and of the Brahmapûtra.
1940 Geogr. Jrnl. 96 436 The place of the Magnetic Pole has been recomputed.
1993 S. A. Maguire Writing Solid Code 36 After the smart engine stops calculating, the debug engine kicks in and slowly but thoroughly recomputes every cell that has a formula in it.
2007 Computer Methods Appl. Mech. & Engin. 196 5048/2 In this case, there is no need to recompute the response at new sample points and the new response statistics can be simply evaluated in a post-processing stage.
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