Definitions

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  • verb video games To reappear at its spawn point.
  • verb video games, of a character To re-enter play after being killed.

Etymologies

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re- +β€Ž spawn

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Examples

  • 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 – By Scott Johnson - There was a muffin there 2008

  • 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

  • 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").

    You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz 2010

  • When a process started with a 'respawn' action exits, init automatically restarts it.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • 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

  • -- 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

  • -- 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

  • 'respawn' actions are run after the 'once' actions.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks 2009

  • The Weekend Heroes would have razed the camp if it wasn't for that damn respawn rate.

    weekly nathreee 2009

  • 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 It’s An Unruly Hooker « Geek Related 2009

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