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resilience
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun resilience has 2 senses
- resilience(n = noun.attribute) resiliency - the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit; Array is a kind of elasticity, snap
- resilience(n = noun.event) resiliency - an occurrence of rebounding or springing back; Array is a kind of backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion
Derived forms verb resile4, adjective resilient2
Derived forms verb resile4, adjective resilient2
CIDE DICTIONARY
resilience, n.
- The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound. [1913 Webster]
- The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; -- of objects and substances. [PJC]
- The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people. [PJC]
- The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
resilience
adaptability, adjustability, airiness, alterability, backfire, backlash, backlashing, boomerang, bounce, bounciness, bound, breeziness, buoyance, buoyancy, carefreeness, carom, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, chirpiness, contrecoup, debonairness, elasticity, extensibility, flexibility, fluidity, give, impermanence, jauntiness, kick, kickback, levity, light heart, lightheartedness, lightness, lightsomeness, liveliness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, perkiness, permutability, pertness, plasticity, rebound, rebuff, recalcitration, recoil, repercussion, repulse, resiliency, responsiveness, ricochet, rubberiness, snap, spring, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, suppleness, tone, tonicity, tonus, transience, transitorinessROGET THESAURUS
resilience
Elasticity
N elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy, rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber, neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna- S, plastic, flexibility, Young's modulus, elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant, ductile, stretchable, extendable, the stress is proportional to the strain.
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