reconstruction

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ construction.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹakʃən/

Noun

reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural reconstructions)

1. A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
2. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
3. The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

4. (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.

Hyponyms

• type reconstruction (software)

Derived terms

• internal reconstruction

Related terms

• rebuilding
• reconstruct

Translations

References

• “reconstruction”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/

Noun

reconstruction f (plural reconstructions)

1. reconstruction

Further reading

• “reconstruction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.