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Third Person
disassembles
Present Participle
disassembling
Past Tense
disassembled
Past Participle
disassembled
1
to take apart a structure, machine, or object, breaking it down into its individual pieces
transitive
- The technician needed to disassemble the computer to replace a faulty component.
- They decided to disassemble the complicated furniture before moving it to a new location.
- In order to repair the bicycle, he had to disassemble it and identify the damaged parts.
- Before recycling, they had to disassemble the old appliances into separate parts.
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to convert machine code back into human-readable assembly language or source code for analysis or modification
transitive
- The cybersecurity analyst used specialized tools to disassemble the malware code and uncover its malicious functionalities.
- To understand how the program worked, the software engineer had to disassemble the binary executable into readable assembly language.
- The security expert disassembled the embedded system firmware to audit its code for potential security flaws.
- To recover lost data, the technician disassembled the corrupted database file to extract and reconstruct its contents.
- Researchers disassembled the neural network model to analyze its architecture.