Recovery

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Recovery or Recover may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Geography

• Recovery, Georgia, a community in the United States

Health

• Addiction recovery groups, voluntary associations of people who share a common desire to overcome drug addiction
• Convalescence, the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness or injury
• Cure, the end of a medical condition
• Hair of the dog, or "Recovery drinking", the practice of drinking off a hangover
• Healing, the process of the restoration of health from an unbalanced, diseased or damaged organism
  • Wound healing, the physical/mechanical form
• Recovery approach, to mental disorder or substance dependence emphasizes and supports a person's potential for recovery
• Recovery International, a self-help mental health program based on the work of the late Abraham A. Low, M.D.

Ownership

• Civil recovery, legal return of property obtained through unlawful means
• Common recovery, a fictitious legal proceeding in England
• Recovery, the finding and reporting of a ringed bird
• Recovery or repossession, recovering ownership of property

Science and technology

• Recovery (metallurgy), the change of the microstructure in polycrystalline materials
• Data recovery, a process of salvaging inaccessible data
  • Photo recovery, the process of salvaging digital photographs
• Recovery, when the threats to species survival are neutralized under an endangered species recovery plan created pursuant to the U.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973
• Recovery, extraction of petroleum, the primary, secondary or tertiary recovery of petroleum
• Forensic recovery, where a search and rescue mission involves, or transitions to, missing persons expected to be dead rather than alive
• Resource recovery, the collection of recyclable materials

Vehicles and vessels

• Vehicle recovery (military), a type of military operation conducted to extricate vehicles that have become immobile
• Recovery (1811 ship), a merchant ship built at Batavia in 1799 that came into British hands in 1811
• Recovery (ship), a ship wrecked near Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia in 1816

See also

• Recovering