English edit

Etymology edit

re- +‎ flag

Verb edit

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.