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regeneration (dict)
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Regeneration - In biology, regeneration is the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs.
- In telecommunication, the term regeneration has the following meanings:
- In inner-city development, regeneration or renewal is the improving of a poor or run-down area by a programme of investment in areas such as infrastructure or housing.
- In science fiction, regeneration is associated with:
- the Doctor Who mythology. When the role's original actor William Hartnell left the series due to decreasing health, rather than replace him with a lookalike, it was decided to introduce the idea that the Doctor has a certain number of lives, thus the extreme contrasts between the various actors playing the role. There have already been eight actors to play the role with a ninth one on the way and the show's mythology allows for twelve regenerations for a total of 13 Doctors.
- the Star Trek series, where species like the Changelings and the Borg regularly need to enter a process of regeneration in order to be able to function.
- Logan's Run: in order to maintain a constant population, people reaching a certain age were sent to a "regeneration" ceremony, that was actually euthanasia.
- In Stirling engines, regeneration is the cycling of heat between the working gas and the regenerator, typically a mass of metal fiber.
- Regeneration is a novel by Pat Barker.
- Regeneration was a 1915 movie.
- Regeneration is a 1977 record album by Roy Orbison. .
- Regenerate is a fictitious product based on the T-Virus, made by the Umbrella Corporation as a skin care product. It is the teaser to the film Resident Evil: Apocalypse. See: Resident Evil's Regenerate
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