0 → retrofit noun
1 the act of providing a machine with a part, or a place with equipment, that the machine or place did not have when it was built:
Retrofitting the structures proved costly and time-consuming.
The rate of retirement of existing plant and equipment and the possibilities for and costs of retrofitting set limits to the rate of diffusion.
This amounts to the cross-cultural retrofitting of gender-based interpretations, by means of projecting a current stereotype back into history.
Furthermore, seeking parallelism latent in the standard constructs of a major language avoids the pitfalls of building yet another language or retrofitting an existing language with non-standard extensions.
We advise aggressive instrumentation of all potential resource usage points: in our experience, disabling existing instrumentation at runtime is far easier than retrofitting missing instrumentation to a deployed system.
Access requirements in transport would mean replacing or retrofitting most existing buses, trains, taxis, boats and planes.
He has conveniently ignored the additional costs—and therefore the increased lack of competitiveness for coal burn—of retrofitting desulphurisation equipment in power stations.
There is a real need for something to be done here, and this also includes the retrofitting of old ships.
I am at present considering the complex question of retrofitting the older types of aircraft now in service.
