resilience

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The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.

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The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.

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The act of resiling, leaping, or springing back; the act of rebounding.

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In machinery See the quotation.

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The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling.

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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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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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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.

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The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

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The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.