In desktop publishing, to change the way a page looks by altering its layout, fonts, etc In data storage, to prepare a disk for reuse which already contains data, effectively destroying the existing data
- a process that changes the physical medium the record is stored on without changing the appearance, or rendering, of the record itself For example scanning paper records into a digital image or copying electronic records from an optical disk to a magnetic tape (See also Conversion and Migration)
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(prefix.) Middle English, from Old French, from Latin re-, red- back, again, against.