reassemble
/riːəˈsɛmb(ə)l
/verb [no object]
1(Of a group) gather together again: after lunch the class reassembled...
- After initially performing the piece, the group reassembled just last week to put together this version.
- The group will be looking at ways and means to drum up support for the marathon and also organising things for next autumn when the group will reassemble.
- The group reassembled around the monitors once again.
1.1 [with object] Put (something) together again: the trucks had to be reassembled on arrival...
- A new airport facility will enable cyclists to disassemble and box their bikes on departure, then reassemble them on arrival and ride home.
- For ease and safety, the students first fitted the frame together on the ground, then took it apart and reassembled it in place.
- By first isolating individual strands and then reassembling them back into fibres, chemists make fibres with as few defects as possible, making them much stronger.
Derivatives
reassembly
- After its arrival by road, the 54 ft, seven-ton fuselage section was craned off its transporter, ready for the reassembly of the wings and tail section over the next few weeks.
- The tiny organisms will serve as a DNA library in which the team can store its precious fragments for future reference, duplication, and genome reassembly.
- Muybridge's two great breakthroughs were high-speed photographs of people and animals in motion and the reassembly of these sequences as projected animations.