resilver en · VERB
Etymology
From re- + silver.
Meanings
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(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:
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(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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| resilvering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| resilvered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| resilvered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| resilvers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |