Definition of resilience Resilience

/ɹɪzɪˈliʌns/ - [rizileeuns] - re•sil•ience

We found 9 definitions of resilience from 6 different sources.

What does resilience mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: resiliences
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
		resiliency
		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"
resilience - an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
		resiliency
		backlash, recoil, repercussion, rebound an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence; "there was a backlash of intolerance"

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Wiktionary

resilience (Noun)
The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
resilience (Noun)
The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
resilience (Noun)
The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar particularly IT systems, archives.

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resilience (n.)
Alt. of Resiliency

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resilience
The positive capacity of a person or a community to cope with stress and catastrophe.

Wikipedia

Resilience generally means the ability to recover from some shock or disturbance.

Psychology.

Resilience is a term used in psychology to describe the capacity of people to cope with stress and catastrophe. It is also used to indicate a characteristic of resistance to future negative events. This psychological meaning of resilience is often contrasted with "risk factors".

Materials.

In physics and engineering, resilience is defined as the capacity of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading to have this energy recovered. In other words, it is the maximum energy per volume that can be elastically stored. It is represented by the area under the curve in the elastic region in the Stress-Strain diagram.

Modulus of Resilience, formula_1, can be calculated using the following formula: formula_2, where formula_3 is yield stress, E is Young's modulus, and formula_4 is strain.

An example of a biomaterial which has a high resilience is articular cartilage, the substance lining the ends of bones in articulating joints such as the knee and hip.

Ecology.

In ecology, resilience has been defined in two competing fashions that emphasize two different aspects of stability.

One definition is the rate at which a system returns to a single steady or cyclic state following a perturbation. This definition of resilience assumes that behavior of a system remains within the stable domain that contains this steady state.

When a system can reorganize, that is