0 the act of copying the product of another company by looking carefully at how it is made
1 the process of studying another company's product to see how it is made, sometimes in order to be able to copy it:
The software is then copied using a reverse engineering technique.
The country's pharmaceutical industry now supplies sophisticated drugs at low prices, having mastered the techniques of reverse engineering.
This is because simply reverse engineering the design solution often results in unsuitable cam profiles, linkage assemblies with excessive transmission angles, or unnecessary large mechanisms.
In reverse engineering studies, most geometry has nonunique functionality; a shape can often be attributed both to end-user function and to assembly or manufacturing function.
For the former goal, connection details that provide the required connection type are drawn from the reverse engineering database.
They used the reverse engineering method, based on inferences to "designing" selection pressures from apparent psychological design, to predict psychological preferences.
This reverse engineering could be used in practice, for example, by filling in a tax-form spreadsheet partly symbolically.
However, here the decision was made to try to increase the completeness of the data prior to learning, by "reverse engineering" missing requirements values.
The reverse engineering methodology employed in the example application creates building blocks from experience.
In traditional commercial secrecy law, the concept of reverse engineering is an allowable method of determining the nature of a secret process or such like.
