disassembly

Noun

disassembly (countable and uncountable, plural disassemblies)

1. The process of disassembling.
   • RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”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
   • 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.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic

   Antonyms:

   assembly, reassembly

2. (countable) The code generated by a disassembler.
   • 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.2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90