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reparent
reparent
See also: réparent
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Verb
reparent (third-person singular simple present reparents, present participle reparenting, simple past and past participle reparented)
- (transitive, psychology) To subject to early parenting techniques again (such as rocking and feeding) in order to treat an attachment disorder.
- (transitive, computing) To change the parent of an object in a data structure.
- 1995, Adrian Nye, David Flanagan, Programmer's supplement for release 6 of the X Window System
- If the client reparents the window away from root, the window is no longer a top-level window.
- 1995, Adrian Nye, David Flanagan, Programmer's supplement for release 6 of the X Window System