Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

regenerative

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables
re-gen-er-a-tive
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That serves to regenerate.

adj

Being a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.

Etymology

From re- + generative. from Middle French régénératif.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more regenerative (comparative) most regenerative (superlative)

Derived Forms

aregenerative autoregenerative bioregenerative cardioregenerative hepatoregenerative hyperregenerative hyporegenerative macroregenerative neuroregenerative nonregenerative osteoregenerative proregenerative

Phrases

regenerative braking regenerative feedback regenerative furnace regenerative medicine regenerative thermal oxidizer

Questions

What does regenerative mean?
That serves to regenerate.
Where does regenerative come from?
From re- + generative. from Middle French régénératif.

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