What is reverse engineering?

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The task presents the question: What is reverse engineering? and provides four answer options. 
Option 1: Inspecting a competitor’s product to learn about and improve upon its features. This aligns with the standard definition of reverse engineering, where one analyzes another product to understand its design, components, and functionality in order to learn and potentially improve one's own product. 
Option 2: The procedure of redesigning a product from scratch without reference. This describes a fresh design or invention process, not reverse engineering, which relies on examining existing products rather than starting entirely anew. 
Option 3: The process of taking apart a competitor’s product to create an identical copy. While this sounds related, reverse engineering aims to understand and learn from the product rather than merely copying it; producing an identical copy may raise legal and ethical concerns, and is not the sole objective of reverse engineering. 
Option 4: Re-engineering a product’s design after it fails in the market. This implies post-failure redesign or reengineering, which is not the core concept of reverse engineering as typically defined. It describes a subsequent development activity rather than the act of analyzing an existing product to learn from it. 
Overall, option 1 best captures the conventional meaning of reverse engineering as the examination of an existing product to learn about and improve upon its features, whereas the other options describe related but distinct activities or mischaracterizations.

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