Usually means: Analysis dismantling structures, revealing assumptions.
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  1. deconstruction: Merriam-Webster
  2. deconstruction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deconstruction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deconstruction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deconstruction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deconstruction, deconstruction: Wordnik
  7. deconstruction: Wiktionary
  8. deconstruction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deconstruction: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. deconstruction: Dictionary.com
  11. deconstruction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Deconstruction (Deconstruction album), Deconstruction (Meredith Brooks album), Deconstruction (band), Deconstruction (building), Deconstruction (disambiguation), Deconstruction (self-titled album), Deconstruction (song), Deconstruction, The Deconstruction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. deconstruction: Rhymezone
  14. deconstruction: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. deconstruction: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deconstruction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. deconstruction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. deconstruction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. deconstruction: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. deconstruction: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deconstruction (literature), deconstruction: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. deconstruction: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. Deconstruction: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deconstructionist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deconstruction)

noun:  (philosophy, literature) A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
noun:  The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.

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