To go back to a place, topic, or idea again, often to examine it more closely or with fresh eyes.
From Latin 're-' (again) plus 'visitare' (to go see). The prefix 're-' means again, and 'visit' comes from Latin meaning 'to go to see.' Combined in the 1600s, it created the sense of returning to something.
Revisiting ideas is how science actually works—scientists constantly revisit old experiments with new tools, and often discover they were wrong about things they thought they'd settled decades earlier.
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