reconstitution

[ ree-kon-sti-too-shuhn, -tyoo- ]
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noun
  1. the act, process, or result of putting the elements of something back together into a whole; reconstruction: Although places and events are concrete, our mental reconstitutions of them are often inaccurate.The restorative work aimed at a full reconstitution of the building’s medieval character, including furniture and other objects.

  2. the act or process of returning a dehydrated or concentrated food or other substance to its normal liquid state by adding water: In the Apollo moon program of the late 1960s, hot water was available for rapid reconstitution of freeze-dried foods by the astronauts.

Origin of reconstitution

1
First recorded in 1755–65; 1915–20 for def. 2; re- + constitution

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