regeneration

Noun

regeneration (countable and uncountable, plural regenerations)

1. Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
   • The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration.
   • Iversen holds that these changes indicate the arrival of farmers, the phase of Landnam or land occupation, that the charcoal comes from clearance fires; that herbaceous pollen suggests the opening-up of the land; cereals, fields; the plantains, weeds; and birch and hazel, regeneration of the...1958 [1946], Frederick E. Zeuner, Dating The Past: An Introduction To Geochronology, fourth edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., pages 78-79
2. Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
3. The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
4. The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
5. (roleplaying games) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
   • The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, page 202
   • Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
6. 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.