reconfigure

verb

re·​con·​fig·​ure (ˌ)rē-kən-ˈfi-gyər 

especially British -ˈfi-gə

reconfigured; reconfiguring; reconfigures

transitive verb

: to rearrange (something) into an altered form, figure, shape, or layout : to configure (something) again or in a new way

Back in the business end of the airplane, built-in features allow the single loadmaster to reconfigure the cargo bay for different types of loads in under an hour in flight.

—Richard DeMeis

Neuroimaging suggested that his brain had essentially reconfigured itself—surviving neurons bypassed dead ones and forged new connections to one another.

—Jeneen Interlandi

Examples of reconfigure in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The district was reconfigured under Proposition 50, the ballot measure that passed last year to redraw the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts. —Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026

Niobium aims to address these bottlenecks using mistic, its FPGA (field-programmable gate array) chip, which can be reconfigured for FHE after manufacturing. —IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026

The complex was reconfigured from the original 309 units into the current 127. —Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026

How Washington behaves vis-à-vis those deposits influences the process and reconfigures the balance within the Shia house. —Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reconfigure

• configure
• disfigure
• prefigure
• figure