Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
derive orduplicate thedesign ,technical specifications ,manufacturing methods , orfunctionality of an object by studying an existingproduct ,prototype , etc. - noun A person whose
job is to reverse-engineer products.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word reverse-engineer.
Examples
-
It seems to me that if you want to reverse-engineer FLE, then it makes a big difference whether we have to reverse-engineer an RNA world or life with the current genetic code.
-
It seems to me that if you want to reverse-engineer FLE, then it makes a big difference whether we have to reverse-engineer an RNA world or life with the current genetic code.
-
Though this is an attempt to reverse-engineer the brain, it is not an artifical intelligence project or one that aims to create a brain per se.
IBM’s investments in our past and future « One Size Fits One 2009
-
Highly paid consultants tried to reverse-engineer PageRank and other Google techniques.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
-
"This is precisely why they haven't been able to reverse-engineer Coca-Cola," says Roger Legg , senior chemist at RL Food Testing Laboratory in Calabasas, Calif.
With Fast Food, It's Tough to Sort the Beef From the Chaff Carl Bialik 2011
-
Highly paid consultants tried to reverse-engineer PageRank and other Google techniques.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
-
Chefs at Olive Garden headquarters reverse-engineer menu items from real Italian dishes.
Waiter, I'll Have the Crowd-Pleaser Sarah Nassauer 2011
-
That is to say, one comes with a set of actions which they find psychologically comforting, philosophically attractive, or based upon some other already existing predisposition, and they reverse-engineer their risk analysis factors to support the decision they have already made.
-
"We believe the Chinese used those materials to gain an insight into secret stealth technologies ... and to reverse-engineer them," he was quoted as saying.
Stealth-Espionage Claims Disputed in China Jeremy Page 2011
-
Or if we had a functional Shian dark drive to reverse-engineer.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.