recompute
verb
re·com·pute
(ˌ)rē-kəm-ˈpyüt 
recomputed; recomputing; recomputes
: to compute again
… began auditing disbursement vouchers for pay of military personnel by recomputing the pay account.—
Walter Rundell, Jr.
Walter Rundell, Jr.If some statistical operation needs to be done on the data, it might take 10 or 20 seconds to recompute, maybe even a minute if the operations are very complex.—Dominique J. Cheenne
Dominique J. CheenneExamples of recompute in a Sentence
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Reducing the size of a fund also means recomputing management fees, and therefore handing money back to limited partners.
—Byjessica Mathews, Fortune, 31 July 2023
Clearing the entire browsing history will cause Chrome to recompute the FLoC ID.
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Byjessica Mathews, Fortune, 31 July 2023
Clearing the entire browsing history will cause Chrome to recompute the FLoC ID.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 12 June 2021
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“Recompute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recompute. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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