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
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They reverse engineered the software.
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Ed Flores, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Then the same program reverse engineers that process to create a new picture, minus the noise.
—John Werner, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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Ed Flores, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Then the same program reverse engineers that process to create a new picture, minus the noise.
—John Werner, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2024
That compulsion to reverse engineer serious stakes for a fundamentally frivolous story is Twisters’ most contemporary quality and its most irritating.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 July 2024
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“Reverse engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverse%20engineer. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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