Definition of "reflow"

reflow

verb
third-person singular simple present reflows, present participle reflowing, simple past and past participle reflowed
1. (intransitive) To flow back again; to flow once more.
  Quotations
  Such an act, you may conceive, had its due weight upon my feelings; but, alas! though it reminded me of the loss I had sustained, and caused my tears to reflow, the remains of my departed husband were not there,—they were left upon a foreign shore.
  1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 257
2. (transitive, chiefly engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.
3. (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
  Quotations
  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
plural reflows
1. A flowing back again.
2. (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.