The reworking of all or part of a batch or product of an unacceptable quality so that its quality may be rendered acceptable by one or more additional operations.
Reprocessing may refer to:
English
Verb
reprocessing
- present participle and gerund of reprocess
Noun
reprocessing (countable and uncountable, plural reprocessings)
- A second or subsequent processing.
- (engineering, nuclear physics, uncountable) The process of extracting useful or valuable materials from used nuclear fuel, mainly focusing on the recovery of fissile and fertile material for use in fresh nuclear reactor fuel, or, in some cases, the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
Derived terms
- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing