reconstructions

Noun

reconstruction (countable and uncountable, plural reconstructions)

1. The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
   • However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, archived from the original on 27...
2. The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
   • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
3. 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.
4. A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
   • It should also be noted that while Dempwolff reconstructed at only one level (Uraustronesisch), many of his reconstructions are confined to languages of western Indonesia2016 February 25, Robert A. Blust, Austronesian Comparative Dictionary, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2022

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