disassemble

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Etymology

From dis- + assemble.

Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəɫ/

Verb

disassemble (disassembles, present participle disassembling; simple past and past participle disassembled)

1. To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.

   To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.

2. (computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

Related terms

• assembly
• disassembly
• disassembler

Translations

• French: désassembler, démonter
• German: demontieren, auseinandernehmen
• Italian: disassemblare, smontare
• Portuguese: desmontar
• Russian: разбира́ть
• Spanish: desmontar, desensamblar

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