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

The finds will be relocated to the nearby Castel Sant’Angelo, where they will be reassembled and put on display, the city said. —Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024

Thus, dairy cows could potentially act as a mixing vessel for the different types of flu viruses to reassemble into new, outbreak-sparking variants. —Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 May 2024

Right after the killings, Sadr called on his cadres to reassemble to fight the Americans. —Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2020

His most recent works — such as his ‘Trace and Whispering Behind Closed Eyelids’ series — combine elements of collage, assemblage and photography, reprinted and duplicated numerous times, then reassembled and rejiggered into a sunburst of ephemera. —Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1