disassembly

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe process of disassembling.

   RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”

   2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN

   1 more example

   Across spans of millions of years, mountain ranges tear themselves apart through suicidal erosion. But lately, experts warn, the pace of disassembly has accelerated, stoked by the human-made climate crisis.

   2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic

   Antonyms: assembly, reassembly

2. countablecomputingThe code generated by a disassembler.

   If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.

   2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90

In a sentence

RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”

2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
2. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
3. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic*dis-
5. Latindis-
6. Old Frenchdes-
7. Latindis-
8. Middle Englishdis-
9. Englishdis-
10. Englishassembly
11. Englishdisassembly

From dis- + assembly.