Definitions
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- verb video games To
reappear at itsspawn point . - verb video games, of a character To re-enter play after being killed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Geee, Scott, you should know better than to leave your stuff lying around for more than 30 seconds when object respawn is on. njmonkey2987
EXTRALIFE β By Scott Johnson - There was a muffin there 2008
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If you take someone's health down to zero, their gun flashes and they can't fire, but hitting the shield and trigger at the same time causes a "respawn"-and there's no record of how many times someone has respawned.
Ars Technica Ben Kuchera 2011
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The three other ad firms -- and some of their customers, which include media heavyweights like ABC, NBC, MTV, and Disney -- are being sued by for allegedly violating federal laws by using Adobe Flash to "respawn" cookies after users have deleted them (hence the nickname "zombies").
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When a process started with a 'respawn' action exits, init automatically restarts it.
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It found that several of the most popular 100 websites have Flash cookies which 'respawn' HTTP cookies, meaning they store information and write it into HTTP cookies on a person's revisit to that site, even if that person has told their computer to delete HTML cookies.
OUT-LAW News 2009
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-- and a distribution linkup with Electronic Arts. In the video game world, "respawn" means a character that was killed off has come back to life.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Hicham Alaoui 2010
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-- and a distribution linkup with Electronic Arts. In the video game world, "respawn" means a character that was killed off has come back to life.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Hicham Alaoui 2010
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'respawn' actions are run after the 'once' actions.
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The Weekend Heroes would have razed the camp if it wasn't for that damn respawn rate.
weekly nathreee 2009
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Why not just take that small additional step and have characters respawn close to the dungeon with all their gear?
Mike Mearls Strangles Realism In D&D Like Itβs An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009
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