Definition of "decompiling" [decompiling]

• Present participle of decompile. (verb)

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• "This transforms the requirements for rational discussion of some old philosophical problems about the relationship between mind and body: E.g. some mental processes need have no behavioural manifestations, though they might, in principle, be detected using 'decompiling' techniques with non-invasive internal physical monitoring."
• "And for added fun, part of the code was lost at some point file corruption and had to be recovered by decompiling."
• "One of the developers on the team googled some of the ActionScript from a previous iteration of the app, and found a forum posting where some 10th graders were decompiling the swfs."