reconstruction

sustantivo

1. 1

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

   However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.

   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.

   For each crane, the nonprofits through an arrangement with a foundation are giving $2 toward reconstruction in Japan.

   Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions.

2. 2

   The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

   By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.

   A striking example comes to mind, in which a scheme to improve the existing buildings finished up as virtually a complete reconstruction, owing to the unsound condition of the original structure!

   “The decision of the cassation court establishes that the Roman salute is not a crime unless there is a concrete danger of the reconstruction of the fascist party, as provided by Article 5 of the Scelba law, or there are concrete aims of racial discrimination and violence, as provided by the Mancino law,” a lawyer for two of the defendants Domenico Di Tullio told CNN.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   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

Formas

plural

reconstructions