disassembly

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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
    • 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:
      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.

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  • OED2