Repopulate vs Prepopulate - What's the difference?
repopulate | prepopulate |
To populate again, breed among a group in order to keep the population up.
To reintroduce a species into (an area).
(computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
* 2009 , Cody Lindley, JQuery Cookbook
As verbs the difference between repopulate and prepopulate
is that repopulate is to populate again, breed among a group in order to keep the population up while prepopulate is (computing) to populate (form fields, a database, etc) in advance.repopulate
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* repopulationprepopulate
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(prepopulat)- However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.