reverse engineer

Speech parts

1. reverse engineer - Noun

2. reverse engineer - Verb

Meaning

reverse engineer (third-person singular simple present reverse engineers, present participle reverse engineering, simple past and past participle reverse engineered)

Alternative spelling of reverse-engineer

reverse engineer (plural reverse engineers)

Alternative spelling of reverse-engineer

To derive or duplicate the design, technical specifications, manufacturing methods, or functionality of an object by studying an existing product, prototype, etc.

To create or modify an implementation to better conform to a desired goal.

reverse-engineer (plural reverse-engineers)

A person who reverse-engineers products.

Alternative names

reverse-engineer

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Examples

"After receiving such technologies, sometimes in limited quantities, China has often sought to reverse-engineer them to produce them indigenously, a process Chinese analysts today describe as 'IDAR,' or 'introduce, digest, absorb and re-innovate.' Source: Internet

Break, reverse-engineer, test, re-break the product with your test zone, that's the best way to not presume but to understand how it works. Source: Internet

In this way, the team hopes to be able to reverse-engineer what is happening in real star systems and accretion disks. Source: Internet

P-code is often also easier to reverse-engineer than native code. Source: Internet

Thanks to the vectored interrupts of the x86 CPUs, clone makers could easily reverse-engineer the IBM PC BIOS without using any copyrighted code. Source: Internet

The TOC/TOC2 protocol specifications were made available by AOL, while OSCAR is a closed protocol that third parties have had to reverse-engineer. Source: Internet

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