0 present participle of reinvent
1 to produce something new that is based on something that already exists:
It also helps us to avoid reinventing the wheel or repeating past mistakes.
There is some reinventing the wheel, but there are also fresh emphases.
How to analyse these transformations is an important question, and yet there are precedents that need to be recovered before reinventing the wheel.
In reinventing negative feedback, the genetic programming algorithm did not rely on logic.
We now have contact with our neighbouring practices, it's good, we don't all go reinventing the wheel.
Once compiled and easily available, these tables would free successive generations from the empirical task of reinventing the wheel, so to speak.
We are constantly reinventing our traditions in the various stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, incorporating new experiences and material.
In other words, genetic programming succeeded, in the earlier work, in reinventing a previously patented invention.
