resilience

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.

noun

1. The ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement: bounce, buoyancy, elasticity, resiliency. See ability/inability.
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. See flexible/rigid.

Definition: flexibility
Antonyms: fragility, inflexibility, rigidity

n

Definition: strength of character
Antonyms: vulnerability, weakness

1. an act of springing back. n 2. capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation. n 3. the recoverable potential energy of an elastic solid body or stricture resulting from its having been subjected to stress not exceeding the elastic limit.

The ability of a body that has been subjected to an external force to recover its size and shape, following deformation.

A measure of a body's resistance to deformation. Resilience is usually defined as the work required to deform an elastic body to its elastic limit divided by the volume of the body.

For other uses, see Resilience (disambiguation).

Resilience is the property 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 unit 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, U_r, can be calculated using the following formula: , where σ is yield stress, E is Young's modulus, and ε 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.

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