reprogramming

English

Verb

reprogramming

1. present participle and gerund of reprogram
2. present participle and gerund of reprogramme

Noun

reprogramming (countable and uncountable, plural reprogrammings)

1. The act by which something is reprogrammed.
   • 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:

     Though some of my adaptations are deliberate, […] most have occurred by themselves, unconsciously, by reprogrammings and adaptations of which I know nothing […]

2. (computing) The process of changing the programming of a system or device
3. (biochemistry) The erasure and reestablishment of DNA methylation during mammalian development