Layout vs Reflow - What's the difference?
layout | reflow |
A structured arrangement of items within certain s.
A plan for such arrangement.
The act of laying out something.
(publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
(engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
(electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
To flow back again.
(transitive, chiefly, engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.
(transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
* 2008 , Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects
(computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements may have changed.
As nouns the difference between layout and reflow
is that layout is a structured arrangement of items within certain limits while reflow is the process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements may have changed.As a verb reflow is
to flow back again.layout
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(wikipedia layout)Noun
(en noun)See also
* keyboard layout *Anagrams
*reflow
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sea flows and reflows .
- 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.
- The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.