Retro-engineer

Quick meaning: Retro-engineer is a verb meaning (transitive) To reverse-engineer; to analyze (an existing item) in order to determine how to replicate it.

Meaning

(transitive) To reverse-engineer; to analyze (an existing item) in order to determine how to replicate it.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To develop (a process) by starting with the goal and working backwards to determine the steps needed to achieve it.
2. (transitive) To revise or adapt (an existing item or process) in order to achieve a new purpose.

Example Sentences

I suspected that's why I could so easily retro-engineer and re-invent their ultra-superior and advanced technology.

Use the functional interaction with your best performers to retro-engineer a mission, values, and culture check-in.

He was an engineer, it was his responsibility to retro-engineer the saucer and its components, to find out how it could do what it had done.

You can retro-engineer it. You look at a roomful of junk and you pay attention to what's lying on what, because that will eventually tell you what fell first.

Word Forms

• retro-engineers
• retro-engineering
• retro-engineered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reverse, back-engineer, reverse engineer, re-engine, retrotranscribe, reimplement.

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