Reconstruction may refer to:

Politics, history, and sociology

Reconstruction (law) {{distinguish, Restructuring Reconstruction, in law, is the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company. The old company will get put into liquidation, and shareholders will agree to take shares of equivalent value in ...

, the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *''

Perestroika ''Perestroika'' ( ; rus, перестройка, r=perestrojka, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg, links=no) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associ ...

'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union political movement * Critical reconstruction, an architectural theory related to the reconstruction of Berlin after the end of the Berlin Wall *

Economic reconstruction Economic reconstruction is a process for creating a proactive vision of economic change. The most basic idea is that problems in the economy, such as deindustrialization, environmental decay, outsourcing, industrial incompetence, poverty and a ...

Ministry of Reconstruction The Ministry of Reconstruction was a department of the United Kingdom government which existed after both World War I and World War II in order to provide for the needs of the population in the post war years. World War I The Ministry of Recons ...

, a UK government department * *The

Reconstruction era The Reconstruction era was a period in History of the United States, US history that followed the American Civil War (1861-65) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the Abolitionism in the United States, abol ...

of the United States, the period after the American Civil War, 1865–1877 ** The

Reconstruction Acts The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts, sometimes referred to collectively as the Reconstruction Act of 1867, were four landmark U.S. federal statutes enacted by the 39th and 40th United States Congresses over the veto ...

, or Military Reconstruction Acts, addressing requirements for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union *

Reconstruction Finance Corporation The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the United States federal government that served as a lender of last resort to US banks and businesses. Established in ...

, a United States government agency from 1932 to 1957

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Reconstruction'' (1968 film), a Romanian tragicomedy * ''Reconstruction'' (2001 film), about the 1959 Ioanid Gang bank heist in Romania * ''Reconstruction'' (2003 film), a Danish psychological romantic drama * The Reconstruction (film), a 1970 Greek art film

Music

* Reconstruction (band), featuring Jerry Garcia, Nick Kahner and John Kahn * ''Reconstruction'' (Hugh Masekela album), 1970 * ''Reconstruction'' (Max Romeo album), 1977 * ''Reconstructions'' (Don Diablo album) * ''Reconstructions'' (Kerry Livgren album)

Television

* "Reconstruction" (''Jericho'' episode) *'' Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction'', a machinima comedy series

Architecture

Reconstruction (architecture) Reconstruction in architectural conservation is the returning of a place to a known earlier state by the introduction of new materials. It is related to the architectural concepts of Building restoration, restoration (repairing existing building f ...

, the act of rebuilding a destroyed structure

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Reconstruction'' (magazine), a monthly edited by Allan L. Benson from 1919 to 1921 *

ReConStruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *''Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union ...

, a 2010 science fiction convention *

Memorial reconstruction Memorial reconstruction is the hypothesis that the scripts of some 17th century plays were written down from memory by actors who had played parts in them, and that those transcriptions were published.British LibrarRetrieved: 10 December 2007. Th ...

, a hypothesis regarding the transcription of 17th-century plays

Science and computing

3D reconstruction In computer vision and computer graphics, 3D reconstruction is the process of capturing the shape and appearance of real objects. This process can be accomplished either by active or passive methods. If the model is allowed to change its shape i ...

in computer vision *

3D sound reconstruction 3D sound reconstruction is the application of Signal reconstruction, reconstruction techniques to 3D sound localization technology. These methods of reconstructing three-dimensional sound are used to recreate sounds to match natural environments and ...

Ancestral reconstruction Ancestral reconstruction (also known as ''Character Mapping'' or ''Character Optimization'') is the extrapolation back in time from measured characteristics of individuals, populations, or species to their Common descent, common ancestors. It is an ...

, the analysis of organisms' relationships via genome data *

Cone beam reconstruction In microtomography X-ray scanners, cone beam reconstruction is one of two common scanning methods, the other being Fan beam reconstruction. Cone beam reconstruction uses a 2-dimensional approach for obtaining projection data. Instead of utili ...

, a computational microtomography method *

Crime reconstruction Crime reconstruction or crime scene reconstruction is the forensic science discipline in which one gains "explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime using deductive and inductive reasoning, physical evidenc ...

Event reconstruction In a particle detector experiment, event reconstruction is the process of interpreting the electronic signals produced by the detector to determine the original particles that passed through, their momenta, directions, and the primary vertex of ...

, the interpretation of signals from a particle detector *

Forensic facial reconstruction Forensic facial reconstruction (or forensic facial approximation) is the process of recreating the face of an individual (whose identity is often not known) from their skeletal remains through an amalgamation of artistry, anthropology, osteolog ...

, the process of recreating the face of an individual from its skeletal remains *

Iterative reconstruction Iterative reconstruction refers to Iteration, iterative algorithms used to reconstruct 2D and 3D reconstruction, 3D images in certain Digital imaging, imaging techniques. For example, in computed tomography an image must be reconstructed from pro ...

, methods to construct images of objects **

Reconstruction algorithm Tomographic reconstruction is a type of multidimensional inverse problem where the challenge is to yield an estimate of a specific system from a finite number of projections. The mathematical basis for tomographic imaging was laid down by Johann ...

, an algorithm used in iterative reconstruction * Reconstruction conjecture, in graph theory * Reconstructive plastic surgery * Shooting reconstruction * Signal reconstruction, the determination of an original continuous signal from samples *

Linguistic reconstruction Linguistic reconstruction is the practice of establishing the features of an unattested ancestor language of one or more given languages. There are two kinds of reconstruction: * Internal reconstruction uses irregularities in a single language t ...

* Single particle reconstruction, the combination of multiple images of molecules to produce a three-dimensional image *

Surface reconstruction Surface reconstruction refers to the process by which atoms at the surface of a crystal assume a different structure than that of the bulk. Surface reconstructions are important in that they help in the understanding of surface chemistry for variou ...

, the process which alters atomic structure in crystal surfaces *

Tomographic reconstruction Tomographic reconstruction is a type of multidimensional inverse problem where the challenge is to yield an estimate of a specific system from a finite number of projection (linear algebra), projections. The mathematical basis for tomographic imag ...

* Vector field reconstruction, the creation of a vector field from experimental data