resilience
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See also: résilience
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From resilio + -ence, from Latin resiliō (“to spring back”).
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Noun[edit]
resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)
- (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
- The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
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Translations[edit]
mental ability
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physical property of material
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ability of a system or company to recover
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Further reading[edit]
resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia