reflow

verb

1. (intransitive)To flow back again; to flow once more.

   “The sea flows and reflows.”

   “Such an act, you may conceive, had its due weight upon my feelings; but, alas! though it reminded me of the loss I had sustained, and caused my tears to reflow, the remains of my departed husband were not there,—they were left upon a foreign shore.”

2. (transitive)To cause to flow again, to remelt.

   “Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.”

3. (transitive)To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.

   “The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.”

noun

1. A flowing back again.

   “the flow and reflow of the tide”

2. The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.