The Collaborative International Dictionary
disassemble \dis`as*sem"ble\ v. t.
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to take apart; to disconnect the parts of; to convert a whole into its constituent pieces.
Syn: dismantle, take apart, break apart, break up. [PJC]
(Computers) to convert a computer program in machine language into an equivalent assembly-language file.
disassemble \dis`as*sem"ble\ v. i. to be able to come apart easily; to be converted into constituent parts; as, the rifle disassembles into small pieces for concealment.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly. 2 (context computing English) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
WordNet
v. take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble]
Usage examples of "disassemble".
Still uneasy, Tom went to the Main Building to see his father, leaving Arv and Bud to begin disassembling the telesampler for repairs.
The two Aussie technicians had a battery-operated lantern going and were disassembling one of the computer displays.
He ducked beneath the colonnade of the Basilica Porcia, where frantic merchants were trying to disassemble their stalls, and worked his way into the Clivus Argentarius.
Ugo had taken his new weapons from out their fitted, fruitwood case to disassemble and reassemble them himself, before finally loading and priming them, then replacing them in their case and locking the case in one of his chests.
Later, in the inn room where he resided, Ugo had taken his new weapons from out their fitted, fruitwood case to disassemble and reassemble them himself, before finally loading and priming them, then replacing them in their case and locking the case in one of his chests.
When the colony was new, Lot had watched it disassemble and absorb steel plates and sheets of ice that Nikko laid against it.
There, on the Nodi beaches, Lamotien technicians carefully disassembled the mod, and helpless Nodi allowed the parts to be shipped to Zone through their Zone Gate, and thence on to Lamotien.
An unknown quantum state can be disassembled into, then later reconstructed from, purely classical information and purely nonclassical correlations .
An unknown quantum state can be disassembled into, then later reconstructed from, purely classical information and purely nonclassical correlations.
Woken by the traffic, new shapers started up and began to disassemble the excess junctions, preserving only those where a sufficient number of pulses was arriving simultaneously-choosing, out of all the countless alternatives, pathways which could operate in synchrony.
Holodeck matter owes its form and solidity to the pattern held within the holodeck replication and transport buffer and therefore is disassembled when the emitters are turned off or the holomatter is removed from the holodeck.
The evil little crossbow was disassembled and slipped into the pockets of a clink-free velvet bag, the soft leather slippers were exchanged for a pair of heavier boots that had been stashed in the shadow, and the black hood was pushed back.
Seated on the ground-cloth of his pyramid-tent, his disassembled firearms spread on an improvised table made of a piece of planking atop his tight-rolled sleeping bag, Foster was absorbed in carefully cleaning and oiling his Colt, Winchester pumpgun, and his two new horse pistols.
There were disused rafts scattered up and down the beaches where the Iraiina camped, not yet disassembled for timber or firewood.
Engines and seats and even headlights explosively disassembled in the air, sending metal and glass shrapnel rocketing in every direction.