What is "resetting"

Usage examples of "resetting".

He had subtly altered records enough times in the preceding two centuries, resetting his recorded birth date every few decades so that no one knew how old he truly was.

Instead he strode into the foreground, the shamblers breaking their circle to let him enter, before resetting their ring.

After resetting the washer to put her filthy clothes through one more sudsing, she sat down at the battered kitchen table and smeared the peanut butter on one slice of bread.

And while that was merely a matter of removing the shards and resetting the brackets on the undamaged crystals, it does require steady hands, a keen eye and ear.

The wave of relief came washing over him just as he finished resetting the circuits which would enable him to supervise frOm the gang board, and left him so startlingly weak that- he had to put the helmet down on the ledge before he had raised it half-way to his head.

His long, crooked hands in their fingerless gloves were working neatly as he spoke, unhooking cables and rewiring, while the Dead God, his maggotlike palm-tentacles wriggling like infinitely tiny fingers, oc­cupied himself with resetting the gauges.