disassemble

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ assemble

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪs.əˈsɛm.bəɫ/

Verb

disassemble (third-person singular simple present disassembles, present participle disassembling, simple past and past participle disassembled)

To take to pieces; to reverse the process of assembly.
To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism.
- 2020 June 3, “Network News: Vote now to choose names of HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines”, in Rail, page 11:
  The two machines are being built in Germany by Herrenknecht, and once completed they will be disassembled for their journey to the UK.
(computing) To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.

Usage notes

Do not confuse disassemble (take apart) with dissemble (hide information deceptively).

Related terms

assembly
disassembly
disassembler

Translations

to take to pieces

Azerbaijani: sökmək
Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), демонтирам (bg) (demontiram)
Catalan: desmuntar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拆卸 (zh) (chāixiè), 拆開／拆开 (zh) (chāikāi), 拆下 (zh) (chāixià)
Czech: rozebrat, rozmontovat
Danish: demontere
Dutch: demonteren (nl)
Finnish: purkaa (fi), purkaa osiin, hajottaa osiin
French: désassembler (fr), démonter (fr)
German: demontieren (de), auseinander nehmen
Greek: αποσυναρμολογώ (el) (aposynarmologó)
Ancient: διαιρέω (diairéō)
Italian: disassemblare, smontare (it)
Japanese: 分解する (ja) (ぶんかいする, bunkai suru)
Latin: distrahō
Maori: whakahoro
Portuguese: desmontar (pt)
Rapa Nui: kumekume
Romanian: desface (ro), dezasambla (ro), demonta (ro)
Russian: разбира́ть (ru) impf (razbirátʹ), разобра́ть (ru) pf (razobrátʹ), демонти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (demontírovatʹ)
Spanish: desmontar (es), desensamblar (es)
Swedish: demontera (sv), montera ner