Regeneration
noun
noun ·5 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation. countable, uncountable
"The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration."
- 2 forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting wordnet
- 3 Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one countable, uncountable
- 4 the activity of spiritual or physical renewal wordnet
- 5 The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ. countable, uncountable
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- 6 feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input wordnet
- 7 The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply. countable, uncountable
- 8 (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs wordnet
- 9 The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points. countable, uncountable
"The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs)."
- 10 The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"This year, Edinburgh began work on its fifteen-year regeneration project to transform its waterfront and provide its growing population with a new kind of living area."
Etymology
From re- + generation or regenerate + -ion, from Latin regenerātiō.
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