regeneration

/redʒɛnəˈraʃɪn/

/redʒɛnəˈraʃən/

Other forms: regenerations

Regeneration involves remaking something. Your city may plan regeneration efforts to spruce up a riverfront area that has fallen on hard times.

Regeneration means "create again," which is what salamanders do when they lose their tails. People find this regeneration fascinating, but even humans experience regeneration when they produce new skin cells to heal wounds and burns. Regeneration is also a religious term that means a "new birth" in which a person changes from sinner to true believer.

Definitions of regeneration

1. noun

   forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
   synonyms: re-formation

   type of:

   reconstruction

   the activity of constructing something again
2. noun

   the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
   type of:

   renaissance, resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification

   bringing again into activity and prominence
3. noun

   (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
   types:

   morphallaxis

   regeneration on a reduced scale of a body part; observed especially in invertebrates such as certain lobsters

   type of:

   biological process, organic process

   a process occurring in living organisms
4. noun

   feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
   synonyms: positive feedback

   types:

   vicious circle, vicious cycle

   one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

   type of:

   feedback

   the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output