Dictionary Definition
restart
Verb
1 start an engine again, for example
2 take up or begin anew; "We resumed the
negotiations" [syn: resume]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of restarting something.
- After the restart of my browser, the problem went away.
Translations
The act of restarting
Translations
To start again
In computing, to reboot
- Finnish: käynnistää uudelleen
Extensive Definition
In a computer or data
transmission system, to reset means is to clear any pending
errors or events and bring a system to normal condition or initial
state usually in a controlled manner. It is usually done in
response to an error condition when a processing activity is
impossible to proceed or it's undesirable for the activity to
proceed and all error recovery mechanisms fail. A computer
storage software
would normally perform a "reset" if a command times out and
error recovery schemes like retry or abort
also fail.
A soft reset is
performed by restarting system
software without resetting the hardware.
reset is also a BSD/Linux/UNIX command to
restore a console to a normal state. This command is an alias of
the tset terminal
initialization command.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tset&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html
Similar commands include:
stty sane setterm -reset
See also
restart in Czech: Reset
restart in German: Reset
restart in Spanish: Reset
restart in Italian: Reset
restart in Hebrew: Reset
restart in Dutch: Reset (computer)
restart in Polish: Restart
restart in Simple English: Reset
restart in Slovak: Reset
restart in Swedish:
Reset