Regeneration

Regeneration is renewal through the internal processes of a body or system. Something which embodies this action can be described as regenerative. Many titles of cultural work and cultural and scientific concepts use the term, and may refer to:

Science and technology

• Regeneration (biology), the ability to recreate lost or damaged tissues, organs and limbs
• Regeneration in humans, the ability of humans to recreate, or induce the regeneration of, lost tissue
• Regeneration (theology), the doctrine of being born again
• Regenerative (design), a process for sustainable development
• Regenerative agriculture, a sub-category of organic agriculture

History

• Regeneration (Portugal), a period in the history of Portugal

Music

• Regeneration (Stanley Cowell album) (1976)
• Regeneration (Roy Orbison album) (1977)
• Regeneration (The Divine Comedy album) (2001)
• Regeneration (Superchick album) (2003)

Film and television

• Regeneration (1915 film), a film starring John McCann
• "Regeneration" (1923 film)
• Regeneration (1997 film) or Behind the Lines, a film adapted from the Pat Barker novel
• ReGeneration (2010 film), a documentary film
• "Re-generation" (The Outer Limits), a 1997 episode of The Outer Limits
• "Regeneration" (Star Trek: Enterprise), an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Regeneration (Doctor Who), a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords in the fictional context of Doctor Who

Other uses

• Regeneration (novel), a novel by Pat Barker
• Evil Dead: Regeneration, a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox
• Regeneration, a book by Thomas Hunt Morgan
• Regeneration (sculpture), a 1975 sculpture by Alan Collins
• Viðreisn (Regeneration), a political party in Iceland founded in 2016

See also

• Bush regeneration, an ecological technique practiced in Australia
• DPF regeneration, removing soot from a diesel particulate filter
• Hydrochloric acid regeneration, a chemical process for the reclamation of HCl from metal chloride solutions as hydrochloric acid
• Presumptive regeneration, the idea that the children of Christians will be born again because God cares for and chooses families as well as individuals
• 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 used in the Atanasoff–Berry computer
• Regenerative circuit, a circuit in electronics that allows a signal to be amplified many times
• Regenerative cooling (rocket), a process in rocket engines
• 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
• Urban regeneration, or urban renewal