English Explanatory Dictionary

factory reset

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.
verb
  1. To perform a factory reset of (a device).

Word forms

factory reset factory resets factory resetting

Etymology

So called because such a reset would revert a device back to its original state, as it would have been when it was assembled in a factory.

Synonyms

hard reset master reset
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