reseed
verb
Forms reseeds reseeding reseeded
- verb (agriculture, transitive, intransitive) To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again. “When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field.”
- verb (agriculture, reflexive, intransitive, of a non-perennial plant) To produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-seed. “The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year.”
- verb (computing, transitive) To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results. “The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.”
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