reconstruction

The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.countableuncountable

• However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling.
• For each crane, the nonprofits through an arrangement with a foundation are giving $2 toward reconstruction in Japan.

The act of restoring something to an earlier state.countableuncountable

• The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.

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

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

A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.countableuncountable

• 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