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disassemble

verb
/dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəl/UK

Etymology

From dis- + assemble.

  1. derived from *sem-✻
  2. derived from assimulo
  3. derived from assembler
  4. inherited from assemblen
  5. prefixed as disassemble — “dis + assemble”

Definitions

  1. To take to pieces

    To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

    • To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
    • The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.

  2. To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

The neighborhood

Derived

disassemblable, nondisassembling

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disassemble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA