disassembly
nounUK /dɪsəˈsɛmbli/
Etymology From dis- + assembly.
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The process of disassembling.
- RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:
- Across spans of millions of years, mountain ranges tear themselves apart through suicidal erosion. But lately, experts warn, the pace of disassembly has accelerated, stoked by the human-made climate crisis.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The code generated by a disassembler.
- If you can trace back through the disassembly to where the variable is first loaded into a register, you can often discover its value or its address by inspecting that register.2014, Jason Gregory, Game Engine Architecture, Second Edition, page 90:
- Derived terms
- disassembly line, energetic disassembly, rapid unplanned disassembly, rapid unscheduled disassembly
- Related terms
- disassemblable, reassemblable