reverse engineering

[ri-vurs en-juh-neer-ing]

noun

1. the process of deconstructing and analyzing a device, a piece of software, or some other product, in order to understand its design or function and be able to produce something similar.

Example Sentences

Biohacking covers a range of activities, from performing gene-editing in garages to synthesizing the ingredients of certain medicines or technologies and publishing DIY instructions on how to make them at home to reverse engineering vaccines.

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But Bogo calls it “Reverse Engineering.”

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Bioengineering researcher Dr. Anirban Paul, first author of the paper, used reverse engineering to find a solution.

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In July, David Grusch, a former intelligence official, testified that the U.S. government was holding nonhuman bodies taken from U.F.O. crash sites, that the military is misusing funds to cover up a “U.A.P. crash retrieval and reverse engineering program,” and that people had been injured in efforts to conceal these operations.

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He is managing programs scrutinizing AI models and tools, including one focused on machine learning techniques called Reverse Engineering of Deceptions, according to DARPA’s website.

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