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Retrofit vs Reform - What's the difference?

retrofit | reform |

As nouns the difference between retrofit and reform

is that retrofit is something that has been retrofitted while reform is reform.

As a verb retrofit

is to add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc, that were not previously available; to modernize.

As an adjective retrofit

is of, relating to, or being a retrofit.

retrofit

English

(wikipedia retrofit)

Verb

(transitive, or, intransitive)
  • To add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc., that were not previously available; to modernize
  • To fix an older version (or older versions) as part of the same process of fixing the newest version; to backport
    • The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that has been retrofitted
  • The act of retrofitting

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • of, relating to, or being a retrofit
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    reform

    English

    (wikipedia reform) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

    • Synonyms

    * reformation * amendment * rectification * correction

    Derived terms

    * monetary reform

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
    • to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
  • To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
  • (intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    • This product contains reformed meat.
    The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes —the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}

    Synonyms

    * amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaim

    Anagrams

    * former ----