reconstruction

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Law

n. a description or model that shows how a past event or crime probably happened.

n. the recreation or retelling of a sequence of events, often used in legal or historical contexts to understand a specific outcome.

“The police performed a reconstruction of the accident to see who was at fault.”

“Forensic experts provided a detailed reconstruction of the crime scene, using digital models to track the trajectory of the evidence.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun American English · Formal

n. the period after the American Civil War when the country was being put back together.

n. the period (1865–1877) following the American Civil War focused on reorganizing the Southern states and integrating formerly enslaved people into society.

日本語:再建※

“In history class, we studied the challenges faced by families during Reconstruction.”

“The failure of Reconstruction led to decades of systemic inequality that the civil rights movement would later seek to address.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Science Technical · Academic

n. a word or sound that experts believe existed in an old language, even if there are no written records of it.

n. a hypothetical model of an unattested linguistic unit, such as a phoneme or word, established through the comparative method.

“The linguist shared a reconstruction of how the word for 'water' sounded thousands of years ago.”

“Proto-Indo-European reconstructions are marked with an asterisk to indicate they are theoretical forms rather than recorded data.”