disassembly

From dis- + assembly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈsɛmbli/

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disassembly (countable and uncountable, plural disassemblies)

1. The process of disassembling.

   Antonyms: assembly, reassembly

   • 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.”

   • 2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic‎^[2]:

     Across spans of millions of years, mountain ranges tear themselves apart through suicidal erosion. But lately, experts warn, the pace of disassembly has accelerated, stoked by the human-made climate crisis.

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.

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

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