reflow

Etymology

re- + flow

verb

1. (intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more.
   The sea flows and reflows.
2. (transitive, chiefly engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.
   Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.
3. (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
   The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph. 2008, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects

noun

1. A flowing back again.
   the flow and reflow of the tide
2. (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.