atw: Re: Antonym for assemble

Disassemble, disassembly, or dismantle, are in my experience the most common
forms of usage in Australian trade, technical and engineering environments
when referring to components being pulled apart into components or
assemblies. I would use any one of those although prefer dis-assemble and
disassembly, they work better in various contexts. 

 

Disband is really not appropriate in a technical or engineering or trade
environment in Australia, I can't say whether that is true for other parts
of the small world. There are some vague usages where you might choose to
use "disband" but I can only think of a few contexts in my trade experience
where it might be useful and they are so narrow as not to warrant mention
here.

 

The meaning of 'disband' is as mentioned, related to groups or things
associated to people, and is no longer as widely used as the derivatives of
"assembly," which has been used in engineering for probably more than one
hundred years. Perhaps some of the oracles of usage may wish to comment
further - as you all know, I claim to be no authority on linguistics.

 

Regards;

Warren.

 

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Subject: atw: Antonym for assemble

 

I am writing a training manual using a product manual as a source document.
The source document frequently uses the term disassembly - meaning to take
equipment apart.  I cannot find this term in any of my reference documents
and believe the antonym for assembly is disband. Can anyone confirm/deny or
offer advice on this matter?

 

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