RESUMPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resumption mean? 

• RESUMPTION (noun)
  The noun RESUMPTION has 1 sense:

1. beginning again

  Familiarity information: RESUMPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESUMPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beginning again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

recommencement; resumption

Hypernyms ("resumption" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Derivation:

resume (take up or begin anew)

 Context examples 

DNA Synthesis Rescue involves resumption of DNA synthesis, polymeric linkage of deoxyribonucleotides by phosphate linkage, following arrest of DNA synthesis due to DNA damage.

(DNA Synthesis Rescue, NCI Thesaurus)

On the day preceding its resumption, the Doctor gave me with his own hands a folded note not sealed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The resumption of meiosis is stimulated by progesterone, which carries the oocyte through two consecutive M-phases (MI and MII) to a second arrest at MII.

(Oocyte Meiosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

If we could only get some hint as to what passed in his mind, between the time of my argument with him to-day and his resumption of fly-catching, it might afford us a valuable clue.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In addition, it associates with CSA, CSB, or both proteins at the transcriptional pause sites to facilitate the resumption of transcript elongation without aborting the associated nascent transcript by pushing the stalled RNA polymerase II either forward or backward not only from the damaged site but also from some natural transcription pause sites.

(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-5, NCI Thesaurus)

This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)