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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.
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In the following we refer to the resulting iterative method as restarted FOM with restart length m, or, as a shorthand, FOM(m).
Luis Sanz, managing director of Celsa Steel UK, said: "Production at the rod and bar mill has restarted. We are continuing to work closely with the relevant authorities to support the investigation into the cause of the tragic events last month.
While two reactors have since been restarted for a fueling cycle under the old standards in 2012, the whole sector has been shut down since September 2013, forcing Japan to import record amounts of expensive liquefied natural gas.
The plans call for the second reactor to be restarted in October.
Three years and more than 2.4-million stops and starts later, the engine restarted each time.
All of Japan's 50 commercial reactors are currently offline and have to be checked by the Nuclear Regulation Authority to determine whether they satisfy a set of new safety requirements before they can be restarted.
It is the latest good news for the facility which recently launched its PS37m Pulverised Coal Injection plant at the site - and restarted steel making on Teesside 16 months ago.
The GB made over "It's of the trio, including Chris Hoy, won the restarted race.
VELODROME hero Philip Hindes was cleared of cheating last night after appearing to admit crashing on purpose to get a race restarted.
Dozens of protesters shouted and danced at the gate of a nuclear power plant as it restarted on Sunday, the first to go back online since Japan shut down all of its reactors for safety checks.
But since the Fukushima disaster, local communities have been refusing to allow reactors to be restarted after routine maintenance, which has to take place every 13 months.