Reuse vs Retrofit - What's the difference?
reuse | retrofit |
The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
(computing) code re-use'' indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. ''data re-use refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party.
To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
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
of, relating to, or being a retrofit
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As verbs the difference between reuse and retrofit
is that reuse is while retrofit is to add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc, that were not previously available; to modernize.As a noun retrofit is
something that has been retrofitted.As an adjective retrofit is
of, relating to, or being a retrofit.reuse
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Alternative forms
* re-useNoun
(en noun)Verb
(reus)- The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
Derived terms
* reuserAnagrams
* ----retrofit
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(wikipedia retrofit)Verb
(transitive, or, intransitive)- The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.