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🦎 To grow again 🔄 To restore 💪 To renew strength 🕊️ To reform 🕊️ Morally renewed 📻 To amplify signal
to regenerate

to regenerate

1 7.3
Make a weak radio signal stronger by sending part of the output back to the input
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : regenerar
  • To improve data transmission, the device regenerates the original signal at regular intervals.

Examples

  • Schumacher has shown, however, that quantum data-processing operations can be used to compress signals from any redundant quantum source and later regenerate them from the compressed representation with asymptotically perfect fidelity.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The amplifier regenerates the audio signal, enhancing the sound quality for the listeners.

  • It's a whole conductor used to regenerate the dice in the solar cells so that they can absorb another photon.

  • Regenerated energy will be channeled to resistors and used for heating.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The home page is updated several times a day, and its 20,000 pages are regenerated every night based on updated data in the Supreme Court docket and the lawyer database.

    Academic text (2001)

  • When the circuit receives a weak signal, it regenerates it to ensure clear transmission.

Antonyms

to diminish
201 3.7

To become less in size, importance, or value

attenuate
8.2

Less strong or intense

How Amplified

to regenerate
  • Specialized
1 7.3
to amplify
  • Specialized
23 3.7
attenuate
8.2

Surface Forms

regenerate infinitive
regenerated past
regenerated past participle
regenerating present participle
regenerates third person singular

Morphology

regenerate = generate (opaque) = re + generate

Although formally analyzable as 'generate again', the specific electronics sense involving signal feedback is technical and not predictable for most learners from the parts alone.

Etymology

Regenerate comes from re- 'again' and generate 'to make', so in electronics it means to 'make the signal again' by sending part of the output back to the input to make it stronger. That's why a circuit that regenerates a weak signal makes it clearer.