respawn

present singular third person respawns · participle present respawning · participle past respawned · past respawned

1. biologyTo spawn again.

   This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.

   1970, Idaho Wildlife Review, volumes 23-29, page 161

2. weapon or other pickup; or enemy; weapon or other pickup; or enemyvideo gamesTo reappear at its spawn point.
3. video gamesTo re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved.

   How and why he gets stuck in this constant respawn cycle is a bit unclear, […]

   2014 March 25, Angela Watercutter, “Tom Cruise Respawns Into Alien War in New Edge of Tomorrow Trailer”, in Wired, retrieved 24 Apr 2014

   1 more example

   Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]

   2009 September 17, Pinsent Masons, “Hidden Flash cookies track even opt-out users on web's biggest sites”, in Out-law, retrieved 24 Apr 2014

4. InternetIn reality shifting and subliminal communities, to permanently leave one's current reality (often through a perceived severance of ties or, controversially, through physical death) to "re-enter" or reincarnate into a "desired reality."

   “Everything in this cult of personality is fragile,” Borkowski said, but added that Musk had proven before that he can “re-spawn” when he encountered difficulties.

   2024 April 3, Dan Milmo, quoting Mark Borkowski, “How much is Elon Musk to blame for Tesla sales slip?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

plural respawns

1. video gamesThe reappearance of an item or enemy; the situation where something is respawned.

   The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.

   2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339

2. InternetThe act of permanently shifting awareness or existence to a different reality, frequently associated with the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community).