endurance

(ĕn-dʊr'əns, -dyʊr'-)
n.

1. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress: A marathon tests a runner's endurance.
2. The state or fact of persevering: Through hard work and endurance, we will complete this project.
3. Continuing existence; duration.

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stamina

The maximum duration an individual can maintain a specific activity; it is commonly called staying power. Sports scientists sometimes distinguish between activities which demand short-term endurance (between 35 seconds and 2 minutes), medium-term endurance (2-10 minutes), and long-term endurance (longer than 10 minutes). Short-term endurance activities are associated with high levels of arousal and use special white muscle fibres that can contract very quickly. The energy release for these activities (e.g. an 800 metre run) depends mainly on anaerobic respiration. Medium term endurance (e.g. 1500 metre run) uses a combination of muscle fibre types, some of which can contract slowly and others quickly. The energy for these contractions comes from both anaerobic respiration and aerobic respiration. Long-term endurance activities (e.g. the marathon) mainly use red muscle fibres that contract slowly and aerobic respiration.

Slimmers are believed to benefit most from vigorous long-term endurance exercises because the body tends to respire more fat as exercise duration increases and exercise intensity decreases.

noun

1. The quality or power of withstanding hardship or stress: stamina, staying power. See continue/stop/pause.
2. Uninterrupted existence or succession: continuance, continuation, continuity, continuum, duration, persistence, persistency. See continue/stop/pause.

n

Definition: continuity, lastingness
Antonyms: end, fleetingness

n. the time an aircraft can continue flying, or a ground vehicle or ship can continue operating, under specified conditions (for example, without refueling).

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staying power

Ability to sustain a specific activity for a long period of time. Endurance has two main components that differ in the contribution they make to different types of activity. Cardiorespiratory endurance is most important in whole body activities and muscular endurance is most important in activities involving individual muscles. Sports scientists investigating functional systems have found it useful to divide endurance into short-term endurance (35 s to 2 min), medium-term endurance (2-10 min), and long-term endurance (longer than 10 min). Success in endurance activities is generally associated with high VO₂max; high lactate threshold; high economy of effort; and a high percentage of slow twitch fibres.

(DOD, NATO) The time an aircraft can continue flying, or a ground vehicle or ship can continue operating, under specified conditions, e.g., without refueling. See also endurance distance.

IN BRIEF: The ability to last under strain or suffering.

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. — Edgar J. Mohn.

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Quotes:

"Those who can bear all can dare all." - Marquis De Vauvenargues

"Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance." - Source Unknown

"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened." - Sir Philip Sidney

"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind." - William Shakespeare

"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change." - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The time an aircraft can continue flying under specified conditions (operating height, speed, minimum fuel reserve, etc.) without refueling.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - udholdenhed, sejhed, holdbarhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
duurzaamheid, uithoudingsvermogen, het doorstaan

Français (French)
n. - endurance, durabilité, résistance

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ausdauer

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανθεκτικότητα, αντοχή, εγκαρτέρηση, καρτερία

Italiano (Italian)
resistenza, durevolezza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - resistência (f), paciência (f), autonomia (f) de vôo (Aer.)

Русский (Russian)
выносливость, стойкость, прочность, долговечность

Español (Spanish)
n. - resistencia, aguante, duración

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - uthärdande, fördragande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
忍耐, 耐性, 忍耐力

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 忍耐, 耐性, 忍耐力

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 인내력

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 忍耐, 我慢, 耐久力, 持久力

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ثبات, إحتمال‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כוח סבל, סבלנות‬

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