regenerationnoun

• 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 forests after the exhaustion of the plot.
• 2

  lifestylereligiontheologySpiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one

• 3

  ChristianityThe 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

  fantasyThe 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).
  • 2003, Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.
• 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.