backfit

[ bak-fit ]

verb (used with object)

, back·fit or back·fit·ted, back·fit·ting.

1. to update by providing new or improved equipment or features:

   a five-year program of installing new power plants and backfitting existing ones.

Word History and Origins

Origin of backfit¹

back ² + fit ¹

Example Sentences

As an example of a strategic backfit, Mattson cited France's requirement of backup generators that would be powered by excess steam from reactors during emergencies to deliver electricity to crucial pumps and monitoring instruments.

From Scientific American

Older nuclear plants require a particularly critical review to determine what "backfit" additions of safety measures are required, they say.

From Scientific American

Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts: faced with the imperfection of the unknown and the unobserved, we humans tend to backfit the world into reductive categories such that only someone of my immense intellect is able to point out the inherent futility of modern life.

From The Guardian