reflag

reflag

English

Etymology

re- +‎ flag

Verb

reflag (third-person singular simple present reflags, present participle reflagging, simple past and past participle reflagged)

1. (transitive) To change the flag on a vessel, etc.
   • 1996, Robert Timberg, The nightingale's song‎

     The Navy assumed responsibility for escorting the reflagged tankers in the Gulf and through the perilous Strait of Hormuz...

2. (computing, transitive) To flag (mark with a variable) again or differently.
   • 1991, Luiz C Wrobel, C A Brebbia, Computational Modelling of Free and Moving Boundary Problems: Fluid flow‎

     In addition, it is only necessary to reflag the cells that lie along the free surface and some of their neighbor cells in each computational step.