Restoration - Definition and Overview

Restoration can be one of several things, depending on context:

• In criminal justice, restoration is another term for restorative justice.
• In history, a restoration is a historical episode under which a previous government of an area is reinstated.
  • In the History of England the term Restoration has a specific meaning in as much as it is used to describe the process whereby Charles II regained the English throne after the Parliamentarian rule in the wake of the English Civil War. More commonly, though, the Restoration period refers to the subsequent years of Charles II's reign (1660 - 1685). See English Restoration.
  • A period in the History of France, the Bourbon Restoration
  • Meiji Restoration.
  • The Restoration period in Germany after the failed revolution of 1848
• In telecommunications, restoration is action taken to repair and return to service one or more telecommunications services, including repair of a damaged or impaired telecommunications facility, that have a degraded quality of service or have a service outage. Restoration may be done by various means, such as patching, routing, substitution of component parts, or selecting other pathways. (Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188.)
• In architecture, the restoration of a building consists of work performed on a building in order to return it to a previous state of conservation.
  • Restoration (television).
• In dentistry a restoration is the shaped replacement material for lost tooth structure.
• Mechanical restoration of vehicles, furniture, appliances, equipment, etc
• Land rehabilitation - the art of restoring the land particularly after major projects and modification.
• Restoration (movie).
• Restorationism was a religious movement in 19th century eastern United States and Canada
• Restoration is a TV show in the UK highlighting buildings at risk.
• Restoration is the title of a 2002 novel by Carol Berg