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reset button

reset button noun: a button that resets something.

Noun

reset button (plural reset buttons)

  1. A button that resets something.
  2. A plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction, by returning characters and situations to the status quo they held before certain changes were introduced.
    • But after a year of sagging ratings, Dallas hit the reset button, by having Pam wake up to see Bobby, very much alive, lathering up in their shower. The entire 1985–86 season, including Bobby's death, had been a bad dream of Pam's, and now that she was awake, Dallas could go on the way it should...2016, David Bianculli, The Platinum Age of Television […] , Anchor, →ISBN, page 140
    • Voyager the show ambles and meanders just like Voyager the ship, hypothetically exploring new territory but actually doomed to retreads and consequence-free episodic storytelling (heavy on what fans came to call “the Reset Button” that restores the status quo), exacerbated by overuse of...2020, Murray Leeder, “Confessions of an Anti-Fan”, in Robert L. Lively, editor, Exploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays, McFarland, →ISBN, page 250

reset button meaning in Tamil

reset button in Tamil

மீட்டமைப் பொத்தான்

Forms of reset button

pluralreset buttons

Questions about reset button

What does reset button mean?
Reset button means a button that resets something.
What is reset button in Tamil?
Reset button in Tamil is மீட்டமைப் பொத்தான். See Reset button meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reset button?
Reset button is a noun.
What is the plural of reset button?
The plural of reset button is reset buttons.

Words near reset button in the dictionary

  1. reservosome
  2. reservosomes
  3. reses
  4. resessive
  5. reset
  6. reset button
  7. reset buttons
  8. reset the dial
  9. Resetar
  10. Resetars
  11. resets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reset button (page history and authors); reset button (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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