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Reflow vs Deflow - What's the difference?

reflow | deflow |

As verbs the difference between reflow and deflow

is that reflow is to flow back again while deflow is (obsolete) to flow down.

As a noun reflow

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

reflow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To flow back again.
    • The sea flows and reflows .
  • (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.
  • (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
    • The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements may have changed.

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    deflow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flow down.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
    (Webster 1913)