restoration

英 [restə'reɪʃ(ə)n] 美['rɛstə'reʃən]

• n. 恢复；复位；王政复辟；归还

1. the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state

2. getting something back again;

"upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"

3. the state of being restored to its former good condition;

"the inn was a renovation of a Colonial house"

4. some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed;

"the restoration looked exactly like the original"

5. a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.