essential vs retrofit

essential

noun
  • A necessary ingredient. 

  • A fundamental ingredient. 

adj
  • Necessary. 

  • Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested. 

  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence. 

  • Really existing; existent. 

  • Very important; of high importance. 

  • Having the nature of essence; not physical. 

  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold. 

  • Idiopathic. 

retrofit

noun
  • An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting. 

  • A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed. 

verb
  • To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize. 

  • 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.”) 

  • To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances. 

  • To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed. 

  • To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc. 

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