Used in a Sentence

reconstructed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reconstructed.

Editorial note

They're also used in QR codes, so even if the scan is imperfect, the data can be reconstructed correctly.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of reconstructed gathered in one view.

adjective

(literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew.

adjective

(of buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

adjective

(of languages, events, worldviews, etc) Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reconstructed.

adjective

(literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew.

adjective

(of buildings, infrastructure, financing, management, etc) Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.

adjective

(of languages, events, worldviews, etc) Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.

adjective

(of persons and institutions) Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.

Example sentences

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They're also used in QR codes, so even if the scan is imperfect, the data can be reconstructed correctly.

2

From the relative brightnesses of neighboring pixels color data can be reconstructed and interpolated to form a human-viewable image.

3

Compare the reconstructed temperatures to recorded instrumental temperatures and/or cross-check the tree ring reconstructions with reconstructions from other proxies.

4

How come every recorded or reconstructed earlier version of every language spoken today is more complex than the contemporary version?

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The proposed solution is simply: Don't use the reconstructed temperatures after 1960, since they're wrong.

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Another thing you'll get for free from an SSA - nice ternary expressions reconstructed (even if the original code was using ifs).

7

The very existence of a divergence betrays a potential serious flaw in the process by which temperatures are reconstructed from tree-ring density.

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Also, to get to the old ship, you just rewind the events, because the state can be fully reconstructed (no weird side-effects).

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Each tracked face is reconstructed in real time, 25 ms per face, holding whatever facial expression the subject had at that moment.

10

Snark aside: have a look at Dresden, which was completely destroyed in the war and is still being reconstructed with beautiful results.

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There's a place in Chicago that teaches longsword classes based on the reconstructed fencing school of Fiore dei Liberi, who wrote this book.

12

In manually reconstructing the image, you wouldn't place the reconstructed eye an inch above the chin - because human faces don't work that way.

Quote examples

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The implication of the word "reconstructed" is very important to understand: Briffa's MXD data don't show an actual decline in temperature.

2

So what climate scientists do is establish "ranges of uncertainty"; their graphs and data show that, given the raw data, the reconstructed temperature was somewhere between Y1 and Y2 for a particular hundred-year period.

3

How worried should I be?" like I was: I just pulled our logs and reconstructed them, and it shows over the last ~30 days that the worse-case performance of our daily backup (~150 MB per day delta, ~45 GB total post deduplication) was about 40% longer than our typical case.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use reconstructed in a sentence?

They're also used in QR codes, so even if the scan is imperfect, the data can be reconstructed correctly.

What does reconstructed mean?

(literal or figurative) Constructed again or anew.

What part of speech is reconstructed?

reconstructed is commonly used as adjective.