Usually means: Analyzing products to uncover designs.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverse engineering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reverse engineering: Merriam-Webster
  3. reverse engineering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reverse-engineering: Wordnik
  5. reverse engineering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. reverse-engineering, reverse engineering: Wiktionary
  7. reverse engineering: Dictionary.com
  8. Reverse Engineering, Reverse-engineering, Reverse engineering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. reverse engineering: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. reverse engineering: Netlingo
  3. reverse engineering: Hacking Lexicon
  4. Reverse-engineering, reverse engineering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reverse engineering: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  3. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (reverse engineering)

noun:  The process of analyzing the construction and operation of a product in order to manufacture a similar one.
noun:  (computing) Such analysis of an executable or other system in order to recreate its workings.

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