reconstruction

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.

   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
   noun

   A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.

   Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions.

3. 3
   noun

   The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

4. 4
   noun

   The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

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

5. 5
   noun

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

   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

6. 6
   name

   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

7. 7
   noun

   the activity of constructing something again

8. 8
   noun

   recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall

Etymology

A proper-noun variant of reconstruction.