respawn
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respawn
- /ɹɪˈspɔːn/
- /ɹiˈspɔːn/
Rhymes with -ɔːn
verb respawns · respawning · respawned
- To spawn again. This diminishes even further the remote chance of the fish surviving to respawn.
- To reappear at its spawn point.
- To re-enter play after being killed, often where the game was last saved. Some top 100 websites are circumventing user deletion of HTTP cookies by respawning them using Flash cookies with identical values, […]
- In 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.
Opposite: despawn
noun respawns
- The 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.
- The act of permanently shifting awareness or existence to a different reality, frequently associated with the UGSC (Underground Subliminal Community).
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Opposite: despawn
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