resilience
See also: résilience
English
Etymology
From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/
Noun
resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)
- The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- 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).
Related terms
- resilient
Translations
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
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the ability of a system or company to recover from a catastrophic failure
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Further reading
resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia