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- Dictionaryreinstall/ˌriːɪnˈstɔːl/
verb
- 1. place or fix (equipment or machinery) in position again: "property owners remove furnaces and other appliances before renting or selling, and then reinstall them when someone moves in"
- 2. place (someone) in a position of authority again; reinstate: "one of his former students was reinstalled as president"
noun
- 1. an act of reinstalling something, especially software.
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to put a computer program back onto a computer: I had to reinstall the operating system. You will need to re-install the program to get the latest version. to put furniture, a machine, a piece of equipment, etc. back into the position that it was in before and make it ready for use:
The meaning of REINSTALL is to install (something or someone) again. How to use reinstall in a sentence.
Reinstall definition: to put in place and connect (machinery, equipment, etc) again. See examples of REINSTALL used in a sentence.
If you reinstall something such as software on your computer, you set it up again, usually because you have been having problems with it.
1. to put in place and connect (machinery, equipment, etc) again. 2. (Computer Science) to install (computer software) again, usually to solve a technical problem. 3. to put (someone) back in a position, rank, etc: Trinidad reinstalled him against Honduras.
Jul 4, 2024 · Definitions of reinstall. verb. install again. “She reinstalled the washer after it had been repaired” see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Reinstall." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/reinstall. Accessed 04 Jul. 2024. Copy citation. Examples from books and articles. loading examples...
Aug 2, 2020 · Alternatively called reload, to reinstall is to replace currently-installed software with a newer version. This step is commonly performed when a program has worked in the past, but now is experiencing issues that cannot be resolved.
