Reset button
button that can reset a device
A reset button or reset switch is a part of an electronic machine that makes it start again. It turns the machine off and turns it back on, very fast.[1]
Real reset buttons are on machines, but "reset button" is also a metaphor for other things. It means "thing that makes everything start over" or "thing that puts things back the way they were in the beginning."[2][3]
In fiction, especially serialized fiction, like television shows, the writers often use a reset button. No matter what happened during the episode, things always go back to the beginning for the next episode.
References
change- ↑ Computer Hope (August 2, 2020). "Reset button". Computer Hope. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ↑ "The reset button: How to make economic liberalism fairer and more effective". The Economist. September 29, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ↑ Andrea F. Polard Psy.D. (January 31, 2021). "5 Ways to Hit the Reset Button". Psychology Today. Retrieved January 7, 2021.