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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

riconfigurare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ri-kon-fi-gu-ra-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Reconfigure/ˌriː.kənˈfɪɡ.ər/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Dobbiamo riconfigurare il software."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To arrange or shape something again or differently, especially to change its application, function, or performance.

    "The IT department had to reconfigure the network settings to improve cybersecurity."
  2. 2

    To alter the setup or parameters of hardware or software.

    "You can easily reconfigure the user interface to suit your personal preferences."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English prefix 're-' (meaning again or anew) combined with 'configure', which stems from the Latin 'configurare' (to fashion after a pattern, from 'com-' together + 'figurare' to form). First emerging in the mid-20th century with the rise of industrial engineering and computing, the term evolved to describe the structural or logical rearrangement of components to serve a new purpose.

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