Resilience

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  resilience \re*sil"i*ence\ (r[-e]*z[i^]l"[i^]*ens), resiliency
  \re*sil"i*en*cy\ (r[-e]*z[i^]l"[i^]*en*s[y^]), n.
     1. The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as,
        the resilience of a ball or of sound.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. 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.
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     3. Hence: The power or ability to recover quickly from a
        setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity;
        buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people.
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     4. (Mech. & Engin.) 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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elasticity \E`las*tic"i*ty\ ([=e]`l[a^]s*t[i^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.
     [Cf. F. ['e]lasticit['e].]
     1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in
        bodies by which they recover their former figure or
        dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or
        altering force; springiness; resilience; tendency to
        rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity
        of the air.
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     2. Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or
        overwork; -- usually referred to as {resilience}[3].
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     {Coefficient of elasticity}, the quotient of a stress (of a
        given kind), by the strain (of a given kind) which it
        produces; -- called also {coefficient of resistance}.
  
     {Surface of elasticity} (Geom.), the pedal surface of an
        ellipsoid (see {Pedal}); a surface used in explaining the
        phenomena of double refraction and their relation to the
        elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  resilience
       n 1: the physical property of a material that can return to its
            original shape or position after deformation that does
            not exceed its elastic limit [syn: {resiliency}]
       2: an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: {resiliency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, transitoriness