disassembly

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ assembly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈsɛmbli/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

disassembly (countable and uncountable, plural disassemblies)

1. The process of disassembling.

   Antonyms: assembly, reassembly

Derived terms

• disassembly line
• energetic disassembly
• rapid unplanned disassembly, rapid unscheduled disassembly

Related terms

• disassemblable
• reassemblable

1. • 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^[1]:

     RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”

2. (computing, countable) The code generated by a disassembler.
   • 2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:

     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.

Translations

process of disassembling

• Bulgarian: разглобяване (bg) (razglobjavane)
• Czech: demontáž (cs) f
• Danish: demontering
• French: désassemblage (fr) m, démontage (fr) m
• Galician: desmontaxe f, desensamblaxe f
• Greek: αποδόμηση (el) f (apodómisi)
• Greenlandic: atasunik isaterineq
• Italian: disassemblamento m
• Maori: whakahoronga
• Portuguese: desmontagem f
• Romanian: demontare (ro) f, dezasamblare (ro) f
• Spanish: desmontaje m, desensamblaje m

code generated by a disassembler

• French: désassemblage (fr)

References

• OED2