| 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. |