Definitions of reconstruction:

  • noun:   the activity of constructing something again
  • noun:   recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
  • noun:   an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
  • noun:   the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877