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Definitions: Retrofit |
RetrofitNoun1. A component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured. 2. The act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured; "the court ordered a retrofit on all automobiles". Verb1. Provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture; "They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors". 2. Fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house; "The mansion was retrofitted with modern plumbing". 3. Substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones; "The laboratory retrofitted to meet the safety codes". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Energy | The process of modifying a building's structure. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | Incorporation of an engineering change(at any level)in accepted or in-service articles. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Addition of a pollution control device on an existing facility without making major changes to the generating plant. Also called backfit. (references) |
Public Administration | The retroactive modification of an existing building or machine. (US Envir. Protect. Agency, Guidelines + Reports, Vomil). Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | A modification of equipment of an airplane to include changes made in later production models. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Retrofit |
| Specialty definitions using "retrofit": Solar Two. (references) |
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Business | During this period, China has invested over $600 million to build and retrofit about 100 manufacturing projects in this sector. (references) | |
This should provide opportunities for testing equipment in the auto service centers as well as equipment to retrofit and upgrade vehicles to meet the standards. (references) | ||
To retrofit pollution control equipment to the plant post-construction is expensive due to the cost of having to modify the plant to accommodate the new equipment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Hong Kong | There will be a growing demand for new and retrofit ventilation and infection control technologies for use in public buildings. (references) |
Korea | The Korean government has launched the CNG bus retrofit project in which 5,000 city buses will be converted to CNG by the time the Games begin. (references) | |
Hong Kong | It is estimated that a total of 7,700 diesel vehicles (40 percent of the existing diesel fleet) will require retrofit of the converters in the next three years, providing over US$15 million in sales opportunities to U.S. suppliers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Retrofit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 47.37% of the time. "Retrofit" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 47.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 47.37% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "retrofit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | عدل (adjust, alter, amend, arrange, blue pencil, commute, equal, equate, erect, evenness, fairness, fashion, fix, justice, justness, mend, modify, modulate, overhaul, qualify, reason, recast, reclaim, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, reshuffle, revise, right, righteousness, rightness, shuffle, straighten, temper). (various references) | ||||||||||
Chinese | 式样翻新. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | réajuster, modifier (revise). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | nachrüsten (to retrofit, upgrade). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | áttervezés. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 개조 (Converting, Reconstruction, restructuring). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | etrofitray подгонять переделка. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "retrofit": retrofits, retrofitted, retrofitting. (additional references) | |
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"Retrofit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: retofit, retrfit, retrodict, retrofet, retroffit, retrofi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "retrofit" (pronounced re"trōfi't) |
| 3 | -f i' t | benefit, counterfeit, misfit, outfit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: fritter, rotifer. | |
-2 letters: fitter, forrit, retort, rioter, ritter, rotter, territ, titfer, triter. | |
-3 letters: fetor, firer, forte, frier, fritt, frore, ofter, otter, refit, retro, rifer, rotte, titer, titre, torte, toter, trier, trite. | |
-4 letters: fire, fore, fort, fret, frit, froe, reft, reif, rife, rift, riot, rite, rote, roti, tier, tire, tiro, toft, toit, tore, tori, torr. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: retrofits. | |
+3 letters: retrofitted. | |
+4 letters: reformatting, retrofitting. | |
+5 letters: certificatory, confraternity, counterfeiter, preformatting, reforestation, retroflection, tetrafluoride. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 74 72 6F 66 69 74 |
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