disassemble

Etymology

dis- + assemble

verb

  1. To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
    To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
    The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK. June 3 2020, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11
  2. (computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

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