reassembly
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4.9
- noun
- /ˌriːəˈsɛmblɪ/
- Carefully follow the instructions for reassembly to ensure that all parts fit correctly.
- reassembly process
- periods of reassembly
Examples
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At the remote end, while reassembly is performed, the message is checked for data integrity.
Academic text (1997) -
Service technicians wore latex gloves when handling sanitized parts of the unit during reassembly and took precautions not to contaminate the filter elements when handling them.
Academic text (1997) -
The reassembly process began with the skull.
Academic text (1999) -
The reassembly of the former old-growth evergreen forest ecosystem could take hundreds of years.
Academic text (2010) -
Impetuous as always, Jennifer had not followed Grama's instructions to mark the back of her fabric pieces, so her reassembly job seemed insurmountable.
Fiction book (1992) -
Experienced music teachers become adept at chunking and sequencing the reassembly of difficult musical passages as a means of solving complex performance problems.
Academic text (2011) -
Upon reassembly, the head tribune—a garnet-hued male with a sherbet-orange mane—spoke.
Fiction book (1998) -
Yet Zeroual, in the 1997 election, had completed the reassembly of the parts—presidency, constitution, parliament—of the Algerian state.
Academic text (1997) -
PHOTO (COLOR): Blocks from the dismantled Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644) city wall of Old Zigui, left, were numbered with red chalk to assist reassembly in the town of New Zigui.
Academic text (2003) -
The technician explained the steps for reassembly after the equipment was disassembled for maintenance.
Synonyms
87
3.5
The process of putting parts together to make something
2
2.7
Bringing parts or people together to make one whole
1
9.2
Making something again after taking it apart or after damage
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
reassembly = reassemble (transparent) = re + assemble + y
This is a regular noun formation from the verb 'reassemble', meaning the act or process of doing it.
Etymology
Reassembly is made from re- ('again') and assembly ('a putting together'). So, reassembly means putting something together again after it has been taken apart, like rebuilding furniture or an engine.