repump

English

Etymology

re- +‎ pump

Verb

repump (third-person singular simple present repumps, present participle repumping, simple past and past participle repumped)

  1. (transitive) To pump again.
  2. (transitive, physics) To use a laser to raise an electron (in an atom or ion etc) back to a previous high state.

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