Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reconstruction

4 senses of reconstruction

Sense 1
Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period -- (the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877)
       INSTANCE OF=> historic period, age -- (an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age")

Sense 2
reconstruction -- (the activity of constructing something again)
       => repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation -- (the act of putting something in working order again)

Sense 3
reconstruction -- (an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence)
       => interpretation -- (an explanation that results from interpreting something; "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence")

Sense 4
reconstruction, reconstructive memory -- (recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall)
       => recall, recollection, reminiscence -- (the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode")