restitution
restitution is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.
- 2.(Physics) The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.
- 3.(Med.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- action
- again
- and
- atonement
- back
- boomerang
- bounce
- bound
- bring
- carry
- coefficient
- collision
- compensate
- compensation
- contrecoup
- direction
- disgorge
- echo
- elastic
- elasticity
- equal
- every
- fly
- for
- force
- get
- getting
- give
- good
- indemnification
- indemnify
- kick
- let
- make
- opposite
- react
- reaction
- reactionary
- reactionist
- rebound
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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