reconstruction

reconstruction

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English

Etymology

re- +‎ construction

Pronunciation

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. A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
  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.

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