Definition of "refactor" [refactor]

• To rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour (verb)

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• "It is not yet clear whether scientists will attempt to package or refactor more traditional applications (which require high bandwidth, closely-coupled communications in many important domains) in ways that are well-suited for the cloud infrastructure, or whether cloud infrastructure providers will offer options that provide hardware suited for them."
• "I isolated components for reusability where I found it useful – which is part of a long term plan to refactor a large part of the code base at work."
• "Now, they managed through hard work to refactor the SAME error into ALL of their products."