reassemble

verb

re·​as·​sem·​ble (ˌ)rē-ə-ˈsem-bəl 

reassembled; reassembling; reassembles

1

transitive : to assemble (something) again : to bring or put together the parts of (something) again

reassemble a committee

Internet traffic is broken up into small chunks of data called "packets" that travel through the wires separately and then are reassembled by the computer or mobile device that's receiving them.

—David Choffnes

2

intransitive : to come together again : to assemble again

San Francisco has a bye this week during which most of the healthy players will leave town until the team reassembles next Monday.

—Matt Barrows

Examples of reassemble in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

You’re beamed to a different dimension by being decimated and then reassembled on arrival. —Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024

Wholesale changes to the heat shield would delay the Artemis II mission at least a year, and probably longer, to take apart the Orion spacecraft, develop and implement a solution, and then reassemble the spacecraft. —Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024

Democrats are talking enthusiastically once again about reassembling the Obama coalition – a voting bloc of racial minorities, women and young voters who twice helped propel the nation’s first Black president into the Oval Office. —Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2024

Both cribs and bassinets may be broken in the process of disassembling, moving, or reassembling them. —Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 25 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1