to reprocess
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- verb
- /ˌriːˈprɒsɛs/
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reprocesar
- At the time, the U.S. had only four reactors capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to extract weapons-grade plutonium.
- reprocess spent fuel
- reprocessed into useful products
- reprocess materials
And so we can actually tell cells to not explode, but to reprocess themselves and start all over again.
- And so we can actually tell cells to not explode, but to reprocess themselves and start all over again.
- Doing it, being humbled, seeing it fall apart, failing, growing, being told you're terrible and having to reprocess that, that is what purifies you.
Examples
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When it does, we go back and reprocess and correct the errors.
Blog text (33) -
Spent fuel is considered as a material that could be reprocessed.
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Yes, you can reprocess the fuel; however, there is no facility in the US to do this.
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Basically, I take human garbage from around the world and reprocess it.
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By the early 1990s, India had extensive nuclear facilities that could produce and reprocess plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Academic text (1999) -
The metals are relatively easy to reprocess and reuse.
Academic text (1994) -
And the spent fuel can be reprocessed into plutonium.
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Technology improved so drastically that the tailings were reprocessed several times.
Academic text (2018) -
Cuba will also have to depend on a foreign concern, whether in Russia or elsewhere, for storing and reprocessing irradiated fuels.
Academic text (1992) -
To help reduce waste, we need to reprocess materials so they can be reused in manufacturing.
Synonyms
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Take useful materials from waste to use again
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Change old materials so people can use them again
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To fix something so it works well again
To make a material again using a scientific or technical method
Antonyms
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reprocess starts with re- meaning 'again' and the word process, which means a set of steps or a treatment. So to reprocess something is to put it through the same steps again to fix, improve, or make it ready to use again.