Reset Definition

rē-sĕt
resets, resetting
verb
resets, resetting
To set again (a broken bone, type, a gem, bowling pins, an electrical contact switch, etc.)
Webster's New World
To set again.
Reset a broken bone.
American Heritage Medicine
To change the reading of.
Reset a clock.
American Heritage
To adjust (the interest rate of a loan) according to contractual arrangement, as at the end of a preset term.
American Heritage
To be set again.
Waiting for the bowling pins to reset.
American Heritage
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noun
resets
The act of resetting.
Webster's New World
Something reset.
Webster's New World
A plant that is planted again.
Webster's New World
A device for resetting something.
Webster's New World
(typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.
Wiktionary

Origin of Reset

  • re- +"Ž set

    From Wiktionary

  • From receipt

    From Wiktionary

  • From reset.

    From Wiktionary

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