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re- +‎ thermalize

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rethermalize (third-person singular simple present rethermalizes, present participle rethermalizing, simple past and past participle rethermalized)

  1. (of food) To reheat.
  2. (physics) To return to thermal equilibrium.
    • 2001, John Gillaspy, Trapping Highly Charged Ions: Fundamentals and Applications, page 45:
      The difference in energies of the ions ionized in various parts of the electron beam will then rethermalize, resulting in an increased temperature.

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