Respawn
Alternatively referred to as pop and spawn, respawn is a gaming term first used in the game Doom by iD Software and is used to describe the action of a computer or human player coming back to life after being killed. For human players the respawn rate is often immediate and the player will be returned back to a designated spawning point or one of a few randomly generated spots.
For computer players and other computer generated objects the respawn is often delayed and can be anywhere from a few minutes to several hours depending on the rarity of the character or object. The location of where the character or object is respawned is often referred to as the spawn point. In MMORPG games such as World of Warcraft the locations of these spots are often logged by the players or mods the players have installed in their games and shared online with other players.
Also see: Game definitions