reassemble

verb

re·​as·​sem·​ble (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈsem-bəl How to pronounce reassemble (audio)
reassembled; reassembling; reassembles
1
transitive : to assemble (something) again : to bring or put together the parts of (something) again
reassemble a committee
Internet traffic is broken up into small chunks of data called "packets" that travel through the wires separately and then are reassembled by the computer or mobile device that's receiving them.David Choffnes
2
intransitive : to come together again : to assemble again
San Francisco has a bye this week during which most of the healthy players will leave town until the team reassembles next Monday.Matt Barrows

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Now, experts are conserving and reassembling these puzzle pieces to revive the decorative walls of this Roman outpost built during the reign of Emperor Trajan. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025 All the remaining stuff, like breaking and reassembling messages, detecting errors, and retransmission, would stay in TCP. ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025 At least until an archivist took another look, setting off a yearslong project to identify and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and used to help hold together a ledger. Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Those employees work on reassembling warheads, one of the most sensitive jobs across the nuclear weapons enterprise, with the highest levels of clearance. Matt Robison, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reassemble

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of reassemble was in the 15th century

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“Reassemble.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reassemble. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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