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 country's pharmaceutical industry now supplies sophisticated drugs at low prices, having mastered the techniques of reverse engineering.
The software is then copied using a reverse engineering technique.
We now created an ontology for the same domain through reverse engineering of this network and building upon the knowledge that had been elicited for its construction.
A model of function-based representations reverse engineering to design synthesis when considering that cer tain computational synthesis methods rely on data archived from these reverse engineering analyses.
Design for assembly techniques in reverse engineering and redesign.
The trend in reverse engineering of nature is justified by the fact that, with millions of years of evolution, biological systems have evolved into very efficient and effective mechanisms.
Functional modeling: toward a common language for design and reverse engineering.
In fact, it should be evident that the logic was actually arrived at by reverse engineering the categorical notions.
Three main activities were identified: reverse engineering, restructuring and forward engineering.
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.
