Regeneration

Regeneration or regenerative may refer to:

In biology

• Regeneration (biology), the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs
• Bush regeneration, an ecological technique practiced in Australia

In music

• Regeneration (Roy Orbison album), a 1977 album by Roy Orbison
• Regeneration (Divine Comedy album), a 2001 album by Irish pop band The Divine Comedy
• Regeneration (Superchick album), a 2003 remix CD by Christian band Superchic[k]

In science and technology

• Regenerative amplification, a process used to generate short but strong pulses of laser light
• Regenerative brake, an apparatus or system which allows a vehicle to recapture energy normally lost to heat when braking
• Regeneration buffer (or regen buffer for short), a kind of video memory buffer in computer video hardware
• Regenerative capacitor memory, a type of computer memory that uses the electrical property of capacitance to store the bits of data
• Regenerative circuit, a circuit in electronics that allows a signal to be amplified many times
• Regenerative cooling (rocket), a process in rocket engines
• Regenerative (design), a process for sustainable development
• Hydrochloric acid regeneration, a chemical process for the reclamation of HCl from metal chloride solutions as hydrochloric acid
• Regenerative medicine, Clinical therapy to replace or regenerate human cells, tissue or organs, to restore or establish normal function
• Regenerative process, a class of stochastic processes in applied probability

In Christian theology

• Regeneration (theology), the doctrine of being born again
• Presumptive regeneration, the idea that the children of Christians will be born again because God cares for and chooses families as well as individuals

In literature

• Regeneration (novel), a prize-winning novel by Pat Barker
• Regeneration, a book on biological regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan

In film

• Regeneration (1915 film), a 1915 film starring John McCann
• Regeneration (1997 film), a 1997 film adapted from the Pat Barker novel (released as Behind the Lines in the USA)
• ReGeneration (2010 film), a 2010 documentary film

In popular culture

• "Re-generation" (The Outer Limits), an episode of The Outer Limits television show (season 3, 1997)
• Regeneration (Doctor Who), a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords in the fictional context of Doctor Who
• "Regeneration (Star Trek: Enterprise)", an episode of the television show
• Evil Dead: Regeneration, a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox video game consoles

Other

• Urban regeneration, another term for urban renewal
• Regeneration (Portugal), a period in the history of Portugal