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

Ceilings are higher, windows and doors are wider, and though the key count remains the same, the 12 units have been reconfigured to create a handful of larger rooms and suites. —Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025

By the middle of the 20th century, the handsome brownstone had been chopped up into a rooming house, and in the early 1980s, it was reconfigured with one apartment on each of its five floors. —Mark David, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2025

The existing bridge will be reconfigured to carry three lanes of traffic in each direction instead of four. —Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Dec. 2025

Since this processor can be reconfigured like a quantum version of a central processing unit, the team could design precise interactions between qubits that mimic a synthetic material with higher-order topological behaviour. —Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for reconfigure

• configure
• disfigure
• prefigure
• figure