reusable

reuse | American Dictionary

reuse
verb[ T ]
us/riˈjuz/
to use something again:
We reuse our grocery bags.

reusable

adjective[ not gradable ]us/riˈju·zə·bəl/
reusable containers

reuse | Business English

reuse
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌriːˈjuːz/us
ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
to use something again:
There are huge ecological advantages in reusing waste water.
reuse
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌriːˈjuːs/us
ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
the act of using something again:
We have a policy to encourage reuse and recycling in all our corporate buildings.
All our packaging is safe for reuse.

Examples of reuse

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This reuse permits the effort required to develop sets of transformations to be amortized over a large number of derivations.
For economy of notation, variables are reused in sections that are self-contained.
Evolution, human engineering, science, and culture all systematically reuse constructs in new contexts that drive their elaboration in new directions.
This allows one to embed template definitions within each other, so that common templates, such as noun phrases, can be reused.
The author believes that these will constitute, in the near future, a major improvement in the way knowledge is captured, structured, shared and reused.
We take the liberty of sugaring the syntax somewhat so that we may reuse without explanation the more mathematical notation already employed in this paper.
The files and ideas presented at the outset by each of us were rapidly analysed, reused and reprocessed by the others.
Finally, as knowledge is reused it is refined and becomes more valuable.
Pictures, moreover, are heavily reused: each picture is used three times on average.
The advantage with the latter case is reusing the robots after each sampling provided that the currents do not change over time that much.
This may be measured by the number of compliant components and the frequency of their reuse by different projects/groups.
The result was a set of modules that could potentially be reused in other applications compatible with rags.
In this type, modules of collected discarded products are reused if possible, and other modules are recycled.
In fact, domain experts are known to reuse models of frequently used subsystems without reconstructing them from the basic components.
Therefore, we want to reuse the existing sequential code generation scheme for with-loops as far as possible.
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