reconstruction

noun4

1. •
   The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.

   • However, we also performed analyses after excluding solitary taxa to check the robustness of the reconstructions to variation in taxon sampling. — 2018
2. •
   The act of restoring something to an earlier state.

   • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
3. •
   The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

   • The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.
4. •
   A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.