reverse engineer
verb
reverse engineered; reverse engineering; reverse engineers
: to disassemble and examine or analyze in detail (a product or device) to discover the concepts involved in manufacture usually in order to produce something similar
reverse engineering
noun
Examples of reverse engineer in a Sentence
They reverse engineered the software.
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By analyzing the waves, scientists can reverse engineer a map of Earth’s innards, Hua says.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025
Everything was built and reverse engineered around that idea of a scene.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
It’s estimated that a quantum machine would take 24 hours to be able to reverse engineer a Bitcoin key from the SHA-256 hash with a machine running 13 million qubits – a far cry from Willow’s 105.
—Nimrod Lehavi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
But market observers quickly reverse engineered the figures, to confusing results.
—Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2025
Everything was built and reverse engineered around that idea of a scene.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
It’s estimated that a quantum machine would take 24 hours to be able to reverse engineer a Bitcoin key from the SHA-256 hash with a machine running 13 million qubits – a far cry from Willow’s 105.
—Nimrod Lehavi, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
But market observers quickly reverse engineered the figures, to confusing results.
—Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Reverse engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverse%20engineer. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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