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🌾 To plant again 🌱 To self-sow 💻 To reset seed
to reseed

to reseed

7.2
To give a new starting number to a program that makes random numbers
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈsiːd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reiniciar
  • The programmer decided to reseed the random number generator to ensure more variability in the simulation results.

Examples

  • After the first run produced poor results, she chose to reseed the algorithm with a different value.

  • To enhance security, it's important to regularly reseed the cryptographic keys used in the system.

  • Valedon, like most of them, had been boiled off and reseeded with human-compatible life forms.

    Fiction book (1998)

Surface Forms

reseed infinitive
reseeded past
reseeded past participle
reseeding present participle
reseeds third person singular

Morphology

reseed = seed (semi-transparent) = re + seed

Formally 're-' + 'seed' is transparent, but the computing sense (resetting an algorithm's seed value) requires technical knowledge not available to all learners.

Etymology

Reseed comes from re- 'again' and seed 'seed'; in computing a 'seed' is a simple starting number for a random process, so to reseed a generator is to give it a new starting 'seed' so the results change.