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  • verb To specify again; to alter an earlier specification

Etymologies

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re- +‎ specify

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Examples

  • We thought we were placing an order simply to guarantee ourselves a place in the production line, that we would have time to respecify the options, and that you would deliver late as usual.

    Lean Thinking James P. Womack 2003

  • Inactivity of the first gene of the bithorax-complex in the appropriate larval segment caused other homeotic genes to respecify the 3rd thoracic segment into one that forms wings instead of halteres.

    Lewis' Discoveries 1995

  • This caused other homeotic genes to respecify this particular segment into one that forms wings.

    Physiology or Medicine 1995 - Press Release 1995

  • When you change one capability in a containing several defined values, you must respecify the entire.

    The Complete Hewlett Packard 3000 hacker's Guide by AXIS 1991

  • These observations strongly suggest that Pmar1-misexpressing blastomeres respecify presumptive ectoderm as endomesoderm by activating only part of the E-EM / En-GRN, consisting of the genes encoding the core regulatory factors Z13, Eve, and FoxA.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • So I went into MCC, to respecify OpenDNS as the secondary server, only to find that MCC still showed OpenDNS 'server as the secondary.

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • This caused other homeotic genes to respecify this particular segment into one that forms wings.

    Planet Atheism 2008

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