regains

Noun

regain (plural regains)

1. The act or process of regaining something.
   • Patients who plateau after weight loss are more likely to blame the regain on something that they are responsible for – the wrong course of action they took or a specic oversight that they kept repeating–rather than who they are.2019, Sameera Khan, Regain Be Gone
2. The amount of width a woven cloth grows by when the fibers swell, used to determine the width of the reed to use in weaving.
   • The number of ends per inch may vary to some slight extent at different places in the width of the cloth and in different pieces woven to the same particulars , but if the regain is correctly estimated , the calculated reed to be used will be the same, unless a special reed has been used in weaving...1912, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, page 105

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