1. Reassignment and re-use of a storage medium containing one or more objects after ensuring no residual data remains on the storage medium. 2. Reuse of a storage medium for a different object. Note: A vulnerability may exist if the medium contains residual data from a previous object. This is now the accepted term, despite the fact that it is the storage medium, not the object, that is reused. See also: Purge. 3. The reassignment to some subject of a medium (e. G. , page frame, disk sector, magnetic tape) that contained one or more objects. To be securely reassigned, such media must contain no residual data from the previously contained object (s. )