restart

restart

[′rē‚stärt]

(aerospace engineering)

The act of firing a stage of a rocket after a previous powered flight.

(computer science)

To go back to a specific planned point in a routine, usually in the case of machine malfunction, for the purpose of rerunning the portion of the routine in which the error occurred; the length of time between restart points in a given routine should be a function of the mean free error time of the machine itself.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

restart

To resume an operation after a planned or unplanned termination. Restarting an application means "loading" the program again. Restarting a computer means "booting" the operating system (OS) again ("rebooting"), which clears up many software problems both in the OS and applications. See boot, warm boot and checkpoint/restart.

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