Definition of "reconstruction" in English

noun

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

2. A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.

3. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

4. 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.

5. (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.