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resilver en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + silver.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
resilvering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
resilvered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
resilvered Tense=Past lexicographic
resilvers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

resilverer