英和和英

語源

From re- +‎ construction.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹʌkʃən/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˌɹikənˈstɹʌkʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌɹiːkənˈstɹakʃən/

名詞

reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural reconstructions)

1. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
   • 1958 July, “Bridge Reconstruction for L.M.R. Electrification”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:

     At Crewe, where a ten-span bridge carries the Nantwich road over several tracks and platforms, complete reconstruction will be necessary to give the extra headroom required by electric trains. […] The reconstruction will be carried on half the bridge at a time so that part of the road will remain open for traffic and interference with trains minimised.

2. A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
   • 2021 August 11, “Network News: £26m Sunderland station rebuild”, in RAIL, number 937, page 24:

     Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions.

3. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

   • 1944 March and April, “The Western Desert Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 73:

     By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.

   • 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 255:

     A striking example comes to mind, in which a scheme to improve the existing buildings finished up as virtually a complete reconstruction, owing to the unsound condition of the original structure!

   • 2024 January 19, Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Fascist salute legal at rallies unless it threatens public order, says Italy’s high court”, in CNN‎:

     “The decision of the cassation court establishes that the Roman salute is not a crime unless there is a concrete danger of the reconstruction of the fascist party, as provided by Article 5 of the Scelba law, or there are concrete aims of racial discrimination and violence, as provided by the Mancino law,” a lawyer for two of the defendants Domenico Di Tullio told CNN.

4. The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

   The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.

5. (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
   • 2016, Robert A. Blust, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎:

     It should also be noted that while Dempwolff reconstructed at only one level (Uraustronesisch), many of his reconstructions are confined to languages of western Indonesia

下位語

• type reconstruction (software)

派生語

関連する語

• rebuilding
• reconstruct

参照

• “reconstruction”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.