reimplement

To implement again or differently.

Verb

  1. To implement again or differently.
    • 1999, Hofmeister et al, Applied Software Architecture A rough estimate of effort required to redesign and reimplement all of the software suggests that it will take longer than two years.
    • So we've shown that it's feasible to understand regions of the human brain and nervous system and reimplement those regions with conventional electronics. - 2003, John Brockman, The New Humanists: Science at the Edge:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English implement English reimplement From re- + implement.

Forms

reimplements reimplementing reimplemented