disassembly en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /dɪsəˈsɛmbli/ (UK)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English assembly English disassembly From dis- + assembly.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process of disassembling.
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: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:
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(countable) The 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disassemblies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
rapid unplanned disassembly · rapid unscheduled disassembly · energetic disassembly · disassembly line
Relateds
disassemblable · reassemblable
Translations (18)
fr démontage (process of disassembling) · kl atasunik isaterineq (process of disassembling) · ar تَفْكِيك (process of disassembling) · cs demontáž (process of disassembling) · it disassemblamento (process of disassembling) · mi whakahoronga (process of disassembling) · ro demontare (process of disassembling) · fr désassemblage (code generated by a disassembler) · da demontering (process of disassembling) · bg разглобяване (process of disassembling) · el αποδόμηση (process of disassembling) · es desensamblaje (process of disassembling) · es desmontaje (process of disassembling) · fr désassemblage (process of disassembling) · gl desmontaxe (process of disassembling) · pt desmontagem (process of disassembling) · ro dezasamblare (process of disassembling) · gl desensamblaxe (process of disassembling)