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re·com·pute | \ (ˌ)rē-kəm-ˈpyüt 
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\recomputed; recomputing; recomputes
Definition of recompute
: to compute again
… began auditing disbursement vouchers for pay of military personnel by recomputing the pay account.— 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
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The first known use of recompute was in 1741
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