Reconstruction

//ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkʃən// name, noun

name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state. countable, uncountable

    "At Crewe, where a ten-span bridge carries the Nantwich road over several tracks and platforms, complete reconstruction will be necessary to give the extra headroom required by electric trains. […] The reconstruction will be carried on half the bridge at a time so that part of the road will remain open for traffic and interference with trains minimised."

  2. 2
    the activity of constructing something again wordnet
  3. 3
    A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state. countable, uncountable

    "Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions."

  4. 4
    recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of restoring something to an earlier state. countable, uncountable

    "The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year."

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  1. 6
    an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence wordnet
  2. 7
    The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome. countable, uncountable

    "The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious."

  3. 8
    A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word. countable, uncountable

    "It should also be noted that while Dempwolff reconstructed at only one level (Uraustronesisch), many of his reconstructions are confined to languages of western Indonesia"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.

    "Fables of the Reconstruction"

Synonyms

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copyduplicationimitationpalingenesisre creationre-creation

Example

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"The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From re- + construction.

Etymology 2

A proper-noun variant of reconstruction.

Related phrases

internal reconstructionamerican civil warunited states

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