Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resilver

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: re-sil-ver
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To silver again.

Transitive verb

verb

To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision."
"To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time."

Etymology

From re- + silver.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: re

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

resilvers (present, singular) resilvering (participle, present) resilvered (participle, past) resilvered (past)

Derived Forms

resilverer

Questions

What does resilver mean?: To silver again.
Where does resilver come from?: From re- + silver.

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