RECONSTRUCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Reconstruction mean? 

• RECONSTRUCTION (noun)
  The noun RECONSTRUCTION has 4 senses:

1. the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877

2. the activity of constructing something again

3. an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence

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

  Familiarity information: RECONSTRUCTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECONSTRUCTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Reconstruction; Reconstruction Period

Instance hypernyms:

age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The activity of constructing something again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("reconstruction" is a kind of...):

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation (the act of putting something in working order again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reconstruction"):

makeover (a complete reconstruction and renovation of something)

reassembly; refabrication (assembling again)

re-formation; regeneration (forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting)

rebuilding (building again)

Derivation:

reconstruct (do over, as of (part of) a house)

reconstruct (build again)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reconstruction" is a kind of...):

interpretation (an explanation that results from interpreting something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

reconstruction; reconstructive memory

Hypernyms ("reconstruction" is a kind of...):

recall; recollection; reminiscence (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort))

Derivation:

reconstruct (reassemble mentally)

 Context examples 

Until now, scientists lacked long-term reconstructions of winter climate conditions.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)

A method of reconstruction used in PET and SPECT that repeats a series of calculation steps with image data such that there is an improvement in the image quality in each repetition.

(Iterative Reconstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

A free flap is a type of breast reconstruction.

(Free flap, NCI Dictionary)

Reconstruction of the occlusal surface of a tooth.

(Class I Restoration, NCI Thesaurus)

Replacement or reconstruction of a lost tooth structure.

(Dental Restoration, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of surgery concerned with restoration, reconstruction, or improvement of defective, damaged, or missing structures.

(Plastic surgery, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a surprise to me, therefore, to hear him asking Holmes in an eager voice whether he had made any advance in his reconstruction of this mysterious episode.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A method of reconstruction that sums individual contributions to a pixel (voxel) value from detected counts of all lines of response passing through this pixel (voxel).

(Filtered Backprojection, NCI Thesaurus)

ACDM may placed over wounds to aid as a substitute for skin when necessary such as for surgical reconstruction or for protection against wound exposure and breakdown and wound infection.

(Acellular Cadaveric Dermal Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)

The type of reconstruction that is best for you depends on your age, body type, and the type of cancer surgery that you had.

(Breast Reconstruction, NIH: National Cancer Institute)