reconstruction

Meanings

Plural: reconstructions

Noun

• the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877
• the activity of constructing something again
• an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
• recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
• A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
• The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
• The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
• A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.

Synonyms

Reconstruction Period, reconstructive memory

Related Words

rebuilding, reconstruct