Refactor vs Prefactor - What's the difference?
refactor | prefactor |
(computing) To rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour.
(writing) To rewrite existing text in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without intentionally affecting its meaning. Similar to, but sometimes involving more extensive restructuring than, copy editing.
A coefficient which precedes a given quantity in a mathematical formula
*{{quote-journal, 1980, William E. Carlos & Milton W. Cole, Band structure and thermodynamic properties of He atoms near a graphite surface, Physical Review B, volume=21
, passage=The prefactor preceding the sum is the constant density of states associated with two-dimensional motion for each state n of perpendicular motion.}}
As a verb refactor
is (computing) to rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour.As a noun prefactor is
a coefficient which precedes a given quantity in a mathematical formula.refactor
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Verb
(refactoring) (en verb)- The code works, but I must refactor it before it is production quality.
- Two significant activities which to contribute to community projects, such as Wikipedia, are to refactor''' complicated articles into simpler ones, and to '''refactor duplicated content into reusable templates.
prefactor
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