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resilience|rɪˈzɪlɪəns|
[ad. L. type *resilientia: see resilient and -ence, and cf. It. resilienza.]
1. a. The (or an) act of rebounding or springing back; rebound, recoil. (See also quot. 1656.)
1626Bacon Sylva §245 Whether there be any such Resilience in Eccho's. 1656Blount Glossogr., Resilience, a leaping or skipping back, a rebounding; a going from ones word. 1799Coleridge Hymn to Earth, Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden resilience. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 79 The Heaviest..has its deflexions..nay at times its resiliences, its reboundings. 1866J. Martineau Ess. I. 41 The heart does not always propel without resilience.
b. Revolt, recoil from something.
1858Sears Athan. iii. ii. 267 Those smaller sects whose fierce resilience from Catholicism isolates them from the common reason. 1890Garnett Milton 38 Nor can we doubt that the old Puritan fully approved his son's resilience from a church defined by Arminianism and prelacy.
c. Repugnance, antagonism.
1882Mozley Reminisc. I. xii. 85 It was possibly a mutual resilience between him [Hartley Coleridge] and people of more orderly ways that prevented him from standing at Oriel till some years after.
2. Elasticity; the power of resuming the original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.; spec. the energy per unit volume absorbed by a material when it is subjected to strain, or the maximum value of this when the elastic limit is not exceeded.
1824Tredgold Cast Iron 82 The term modulus of resilience, I have ventured to apply to the number which represents the power of a material to resist an impulsive force. 1834Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 530 The natural elasticity or resilience of the lungs. 1867C. T. F. Young Fouling Iron Ships 164 To bend back again.., if the metal possesses sufficient resilience to do so. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 470 [The skin] giving a sensation of the loss of all elasticity or resilience. 1908E. S. Andrews Theory & Design of Structures i. 27 The work done per unit volume of a material in producing strain is called resilience. 1965J. A. Cormack Definitions Strength of Materials iii. 67 Show that resilience per cubic inch in direct tension or compression may be expressed in the form f2/2E, where f is the intensity of stress induced and E is the modulus of elasticity. 1978B. I. Sandor Strength of Materials iv. 79 The maximum value of the elastic strain energy in a unit volume that has not been permanently deformed is called the modulus of resilience.
fig.1893Independent (N.Y.) 19 Oct., The resilience and the elasticity of spirit which I had even ten years ago. |