"reflow" meaning in English

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        "To flow back again; to flow once more."
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        "(intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more."
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          "text": "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."
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        "(transitive, chiefly engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt."
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        "(transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document."
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