reconstruction

plural reconstructions

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

   Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions.

   2021 August 11, “Network News: £26m Sunderland station rebuild”, in RAIL, number 937, page 24

   3 more examples

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

   2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2025

   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.

   1958 July 28, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488

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

   2011 April 12, Chris English, PhillyBurbs.com, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2026

2. countableuncountableThe act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

   3 more examples

   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.

   1944 March and April, “The Western Desert Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 73

   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!

   1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255

   “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.

   2024 January 19, Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Fascist salute legal at rallies unless it threatens public order, says Italy’s high court”, in CNN, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024

3. countableuncountableThe 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. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA 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

   2016 February 25, Robert A. Blust, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2022

1. 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