• Resilience

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /rÉ™.zɪl.ɪ.É™ns/

    Origin

    From Latin resiliō ("to spring back").

    Noun

    resilience

    (countable and uncountable; plural resiliences)
    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 to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

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