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re·sil·ience
(rĭ-zĭl′yəns)n.
1. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
2. 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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resilience
(rɪˈzɪlɪəns)n
1. Also: resiliency the state or quality of being resilient
2. (Environmental Science) ecology the ability of an ecosystem to return to its original state after being disturbed
3. (General Physics) physics the amount of potential energy stored in an elastic material when deformed
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re•sil•ience
(rɪˈzɪl yəns)also re•sil′ien•cy,
n.
1. the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.
2. ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.
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| Noun | 1. | resilience - the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit elasticity, snap - the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" |
| 2. | resilience - an occurrence of rebounding or springing back |
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resilience
noun
1. suppleness, give, spring, flexibility, elasticity, plasticity, pliability, springiness the texture of the skin and the resilience of the flesh
2. strength, toughness, adaptability, hardiness the resilience of human beings
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resilience
noun1. The ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement:
2. The quality or state of being flexible:
bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resiliency, spring, springiness, suppleness.
Obsolete: flexure.
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
resilience
[rɪˈzɪliəns] n [material] → résistance f
[person] (mental) → ténacité f, résistance f; (physical) → résistance f
[market, economy, currency] → résistance f
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resilience
n
(of material) → Federn nt
(fig, of person, nature) → Unverwüstlichkeit f; (of economy) → Stabilität f
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re·sil·i·ence
1. n. capacidad de lograr una recuperacíon después de una enfermedad;
2. elasticidad. V.: elasticity
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