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Definition of Recuperation

1. Noun. Gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury.

Definition of Recuperation

1. n.. Recovery, as of anything lost, especially of the health or strength.

Definition of Recuperation

1. Noun. gradual restoration to health; convalescence (see recuperate) ¹

2. Noun. (sociology) process by which radical or subversive ideas are co-opted by mainstream society (antonym: detournement) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recuperation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Recuperation

1. The recovery of health and strength. Origin: L. Recuperatio This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recuperation

Literary usage of Recuperation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Producer-gas and Gas-producers by Samuel S. Wyer (1906)
"Comparison of regeneration and recuperation. (B 194.) The regenerative system must be reversed about every thirty minutes: on the other hand, ..."

2. A Treatise on Producer-gas and Gas-producers by Samuel S. Wyer (1907)
"Comparison of regeneration and recuperation. (B 194.) The regenerative system must be reversed about every thirty minutes: on the other hand, ..."

3. French Civilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Introduction by Albert Léon Guérard (1914)
"Recuperation. Foundation of the Republic. Conquest of the Republic by the Republicans.—Financial recuperation : Thiers and the liberation of the ..."

4. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"The effect of this recuperation is to produce an exceedingly high temperature of combustion—so high, in fact, as to melt fire-bricks of the very best ..."

5. Industrial Furnaces and Methods of Control by Emilio Damour, Augustin Leon Jean Queneau (1906)
"Method of Recuperation No recuperation. Single recuperation by the secondary air. ... Triple recuperation — secondary and primary air, gas. ..."

6. An Elementary Laboratory Course in Psychology by Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Floyd Henry Allport (1916)
"Exhaustion and Recuperation (14) Materials: Small bottles of tincture of ... Continue this process of exhaustion and recuperation until no odor can be ..."

7. An Elementary Laboratory Course in Psychology by Herbert Sidney Langfeld, Floyd Henry Allport (1916)
"Exhaustion and Recuperation (14) Materials: Small bottles of tincture of ... Continue this process of exhaustion and recuperation until no odor can be ..."

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