Remelting

Part of speech: noun, verb

Definitions

1. The act of applying heat to a solidified substance to return it to its liquid state describes the process of changing a previously melted material back into molten form
2. This refers to the heating of a previously solidified material, allowing it to re-enter a liquid state through the process of melting again
3. The process of applying heat to a previously solidified substance, enabling it to revert from solid to liquid form, signifies a transformation back to a molten state

Etymology: "Remelting" is an inflected form, the present participle and gerund of "remelt," so it needs only a brief account of its base. "Remelt" is built from the prefix "re-", meaning "again" or "back," joined to "melt." The prefix is the familiar Latin "re-", which reached English by way of Old French, where it appeared as "re-" in the same sense. "Melt" is the older native word, inherited from Old English, so the compound is a blend of a Latin-derived prefix on an Anglo-Saxon root.

Synonyms: liquefying, fusing