restitution

Etymology

From Old French restitucion, from Latin restitutio.

noun

1. (law) A process of compensation for losses.
2. The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
3. A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
   the restitution of an elastic body
   The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution. 2011, Evangelos Tsotsas, Arun S. Mujumdar, Modern Drying Technology, Experimental Techniques - Page 314
4. That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
   Valery Kulishov, Russia's restitution director, pledged his country's assistance in obtaining restitution for individual victims, and turned over three secret documents bearing on stolen or missing artworks. 1998-12-19, “Restitution and the Problem of Stolen Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
5. (medicine) The movement of rotation 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 labour.