Definition of reconstructions:
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The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
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The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
(n) :
A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
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The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
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(linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
(n) :
A period of the history of the United States from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-Confederate states, the ex-Confederate leaders, and the Freedmen (ex-slaves) after the American Civil War.