Reconstruction

Reconstruction

__NOTOC__Reconstruction may refer to:

Politics, history and sociology

*Postwar reconstruction.
**Reconstruction era of the United States, the period between 1865 to 1877 when the US government focused on resolving the consequences and aftermath of the American Civil War (1861–1865); especially this period within the former confederate states.
**Ministry of Reconstruction, a department of the United Kingdom government which existed for a period after both World War I and World War II.
*Critical reconstruction, a theory regarding the reconstruction of Berlin following the fall of the Berlin Wall.
*Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a United States government agency chartered in 1932 and dissolved during the late 1940s.
*Economic reconstruction.
*Reconstruction (law).

Rebuilding

*A replica.
**Reconstruction (architecture), a replica of a destroyed building.
*Reconstructive plastic surgery.

Arts and entertainment

*Reconstruction (band), featuring Jerry Garcia and John Kahn.
*"Reconstruction" (song), a song by Matmos from the 2003 album "The Civil War".
*"Reconstruction" (film) - a 2001 film about the 1959 Ioanid Gang bank heist in Romania.
*"Reconstruction" (2003 film) - Danish film directed by Christoffer Boe
*"Reconstruction" ("Jericho" episode), the first episode of the second season of the TV series "Jericho".
*Memorial reconstruction, theories regarding the 17th-century transcription of plays from memory by actors who had played parts in them.
*"Doctor Who" reconstructions, episodes of the TV series "Doctor Who" remade using soundtracks recorded by fans of the series and surviving visual material.
*, a 2008 comedy machinima series produced by Rooster Teeth Productions.

cience and computing

*Event reconstruction, the determination and interpretation of signals rendered by a particle detector.
*Crime reconstruction.
**Shooting reconstruction.
*Reconstruction conjecture, a conjecture in graph theory stating that graphs are determined uniquely by their subgraphs.
*Iterative reconstruction, methods using projections of an object to construct two and three-dimensional images of it.
**Reconstruction algorithm, an algorithm used in iterative reconstruction.
*Single particle reconstruction, the combination of multiple numbers of ostensibly identical images of molecules or macromolecular assemblies to produce a three-dimensional image.
*Vector field reconstruction, the creation of a vector field from experimental data (usually with the goal of finding a model of the system producing the data that is based on one or more differential equations).
*Cone beam reconstruction, a two-dimensional computational microtomography method.
*Ancestral reconstruction, the analysis of organisms' relationships via DNA and genome data.
*Surface reconstruction, the process by which atoms at the surface of a crystal assume a different structure from those within the crystal.

Language and linguistics

*Language reconstruction.

See also

* Reconstructionism, a term describing various religious movements.
* Construction (disambiguation).


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  • reconstruction — [ r(ə)kɔ̃stryksjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1728; de reconstruire, d apr. construction ♦ Action de reconstruire (qqch.). Reconstruction d un mur, d un édifice. Spécialt Reconstruction des villes détruites par la guerre. ♢ Fig. La reconstruction des espèces… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • reconstruction — re‧con‧struc‧tion [ˌriːkənˈstrʌkʆn] noun 1. [uncountable] the work that is done after a war,Earthquake etc to repair the damage that was caused to buildings, industry etc: • the post war reconstruction of the country s damaged infrastructure 2.… …   Financial and business terms

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  • Reconstruction —   [riːkən strʌkʃn; englisch »Wiederaufbau«] die, , nach dem Sezessionskrieg in den USA die Periode der Wiedereingliederung der elf Südstaaten in die Union (1865 77). Sie wurde durch verschiedene soziale und politische Probleme erschwert: die… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • reconstruction — re·con·struc·tion n 1: a rebuilding of a nonfunctional patented article that amounts to creation of a new article and constitutes infringement of the patent the complete replacement of the mechanism was a reconstruction and not a repair 2: the… …   Law dictionary

  • Reconstruction — Re con*struc tion ( str?k sh?n), n. 1. The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed. [1913 Webster] 2. (U.S. Politics) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Reconstruction — (1865 77) the period of American history after the Civil War when the southern states, under government and military control, rejoined the US. Slavery was ended, black people were given the right to vote, and a few universities were established… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Reconstruction — (1865 77) the period of American history after the Civil War when the southern states, under government and military control, rejoined the US. Slavery was ended, black people were given the right to vote, and a few universities were established… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • reconstruction — 1791, action or process of reconstructing,” from RE (Cf. re ) + CONSTRUCTION (Cf. construction). In U.S. political history sense (usually with a capital R ), from 1865. It had been used during the American Civil War in reference to… …   Etymology dictionary

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