Definition of "reflow" in English

verb

1. (intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more.

   • The sea flows and reflows.

2. (transitive, chiefly engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.

   • Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.

3. (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.

noun

1. A flowing back again.

   • the flow and reflow of the tide

2. (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.