Reconstructionname

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  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

reconstructionnoun/ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/

• 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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA 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