Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flow back; ebb.
- noun A reflux; a flowing back; refluenee; ebb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To flow back; to ebb.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
flow back again. - verb transitive To cause to
flow again, toremelt . - verb transitive, computing To modify the
layout oftext around other objects in a document.
Etymologies
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"EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or 'reflow') to these smaller screens," Mr. Badger explained in the post.
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"EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or 'reflow') to these smaller screens," Mr. Badger explained in the post.
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"EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or 'reflow') to these smaller screens," Mr. Badger explained in the post.
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The best estimates that I've seen are from the blue-ribbon panel convened by Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation, which showed that the "reflow" effects would be generally in the neighborhood of 5-10%, with only one model showing possible effects of over 20%.
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The true fix is that a soldering iron must be placed on the pin and solder pad to "reflow" the solder, like what was suppose to happen in the original solder paste production process.
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"EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or 'reflow') to these smaller screens," Mr. Badger explained in the post.
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The reader meanwhile allows you to "reflow" text in awkward PDFs so they fit the screen better.
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You can convert between the two formats although ePub reflow can make a mess of highly formatted Acrobat documents.
iPad vs. Kindle: It’s Way Too Early to Tell « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
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PDF is a format for describing individual printed pages after layout is complete and it's very hard reflow the text for a different page size after the fact.
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That means each ebook has a linked table of contents and text reflow for small reading devices.
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