Other forms: reconstructions
Reconstruction is building again what was destroyed. Post-war reconstruction, reconstruction of the scene, facial reconstruction.
It covers rebuilding cities after a war, rebuilding a sequence of events in an investigation, and rebuilding a face or a knee in surgery — all the same idea, applied to very different material. Capitalised, Reconstruction names the period after the American Civil War. Note reconstruct; and that the re- is doing the whole job.
1nounreconstructionBuilding again what was destroyed.
“The reconstruction of the bridge after the war took years.”
2nounworkingA working-out of how events went.
“Investigators built a computer reconstruction of how the plane crashed.”
reconstruction is a rebuilding.
Proto-Indo-European
*strew-
Latin
cōnstructiō
Old French
construction
Middle English
construccioun
English
construction
English, today
reconstruction
From re- + construction. construction comes from Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruō. Morphologically construct + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA