disassemble

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ assemble

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəɫ/

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Verb

disassemble (third-person singular simple present 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.

   • 2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:

     The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.

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

Usage notes

Do not confuse disassemble (take apart) with dissemble (hide information deceptively).

Related terms

• assembly
• disassembly
• disassembler

Translations

to take to pieces

• Armenian: քանդել (hy) (kʻandel), ապամոնտաժել (hy) (apamontažel)
• Azerbaijani: sökmək
• Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), демонтирам (bg) (demontiram)
• Catalan: desmuntar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拆卸 (zh) (chāixiè), 拆開／拆开 (zh) (chāikāi), 拆下 (zh) (chāixià)

• Czech: rozebrat, rozmontovat
• Danish: demontere
• Dutch: demonteren (nl)
• Finnish: purkaa (fi), purkaa osiin, hajottaa osiin
• French: désassembler (fr), démonter (fr)
• German: demontieren (de), auseinander nehmen
• Greek: αποσυναρμολογώ (el) (aposynarmologó)

  Ancient: διαιρέω (diairéō)

• Italian: disassemblare, smontare (it)
• Japanese: 分解する (ja) (ぶんかいする, bunkai suru)
• Latin: distrahō
• Maori: whakahoro
• Portuguese: desmontar (pt)
• Rapa Nui: kumekume
• Romanian: desface (ro), dezasambla (ro), demonta (ro)
• Russian: разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ), демонти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demontírovatʹ)
• Spanish: desmontar (es), desensamblar (es)
• Swedish: demontera (sv), montera ner

See also

• dismantle