regeneration - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

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.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: regeneration

1	n	forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
2	n	feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: regeneration

1

n forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting

Synonyms:: re-formation

Type of:: reconstruction
the activity of constructing something again

n the activity of spiritual or physical renewal

Type of:: resurgence, revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification
bringing again into activity and prominence

n (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

2

n 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