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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But market observers quickly reverse engineered the figures, to confusing results.
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Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
The heavy lifting in Fun-Tuning involved reverse engineering the training loss.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
The Seattle-San Diego pairing, though, was more a result of two teams and cities left out of the fun at the end of a round of musical chairs, so fans reverse engineered a justification.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
If the efficiencies are secret and hard to reverse engineer, then the benefits accrue to the discoverer.
—Philip Maymin, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
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Josephine Rozzelle, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
The heavy lifting in Fun-Tuning involved reverse engineering the training loss.
—ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
The Seattle-San Diego pairing, though, was more a result of two teams and cities left out of the fun at the end of a round of musical chairs, so fans reverse engineered a justification.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
If the efficiencies are secret and hard to reverse engineer, then the benefits accrue to the discoverer.
—Philip Maymin, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for reverse engineer
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“Reverse engineer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reverse%20engineer. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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