Resilver

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To silver again. transitive

    "It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision."

  2. 2
    To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk. transitive

    "To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time."

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"It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision."

Etymology

From re- + silver.

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