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An occurrence of rebounding or springing back
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resilience
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Resilience is an album released in 2008 by Annabelle Chvostek . The album was recorded with producers Roma Baran (Laurie Anderson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle ) and Vivian Stoll (Unknown Gender, Isis). It includes a co-write with Canadian legend Bruce Cockburn ...
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n. the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit [syn: resiliency ] an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: resiliency ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB show ▪ Middlesbrough showed a resilience that emphasised they are no longer a soft touch on their travels. ▪ The very fact that the media and police have investigated so vigorously shows its resilience . ▪ Brussels: ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune. 2 The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity. 3 The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself ...
Usage examples of resilience.
The behemoth tumbled to the ground again, all strength and resilience gone, and waited for death to take it.
Uncle Mather, I am amazed by the resilience of people pushed into a desperate situation.
Though slender and graceful, he had a remarkable look of strength and resilience, like some fine cable that could never be broken.
But Koshmar in her extraordinary resilience had withstood all these blows.
He touched her forehead with his lips, savoring the warmth and resilience of her skin.
But the spreading resilience of the commoners was helping to fan the flames.
There is that marble where Papias of Aphrodisias has outlined a body tenderly nude, with the delicate resilience of narcissus.
The ropes at her ankles as well as those dragging up her arms confined her to an extremely limited range of movement, just enough to excite me with her convulsive gyrations and her buckings and lungings which made her thighs and bubbies jounce and jiggle and express the luscious resilience of her naked flesh.
Sardonic humor flourished alongside despair, and for every personalized story of emotional exhaustion and shattered lives, it usually was possible to find an up-lifting counterexample of resilience, hope, and accomplishment.
The first time she worked the flint, she had searched for a hammerstone that felt good in her hand and had the right resilience when struck against flint.
Bynar computer specialist, entered behind her, followed moments later by engineers Fabian Stevens and P8 Blue, a Nasat whose compact, insectoid form Corsi sometimes envied for its resilience.
Not a monoculture: these were old plantations, interplanted with secondary and tertiary crops in a careful balance to maximize both production and resilience.
Another slight resequencing of the base pairs of a specific human gene had been found to substantially improve the efficiency of the lungs and respiratory systems, while the addition of a single new gene, adapted from one located in the DNA of the African gorilla, caused an increase in muscular density and resilience.
But within months, the resilience of these people revitalized and created one of the most flourishing communities in the camps.
She dealt with them in assembly-line fashion, classifying them by appearance, photographing them, staining them with dyes, and, above all, testing the resilience and strength of their collagen, the protein that made skin thick and healthy, before passing them on to Alfred.