Usually means: Modify existing equipment for improvement.
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  1. retrofit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retrofit: Merriam-Webster
  3. retrofit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retrofit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retrofit: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retrofit: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retrofit, retrofit: Wordnik
  8. retrofit: Wiktionary
  9. retrofit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. retrofit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. retrofit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. retrofit: Dictionary.com
  13. retrofit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Retrofit (company), Retrofit (disambiguation), Retrofit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. retrofit: Rhymezone
  16. retrofit: FreeDictionary.org
  17. retrofit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. retrofit: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. retrofit: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. retrofit: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
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  3. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize.
verb:  To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc.
verb:  (computing) Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”)
verb:  (figuratively) To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances.
verb:  (intransitive) To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
noun:  An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting.
noun:  A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed.

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