A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, theresilience of a ball or of sound.
This great increase of strength, stiffness, elasticity, and resilience is obtained at the expense of some ductility, which diminishes as the tenacity increases.
The modulus of ultimate resilience of the cold-rolled iron is, however, above 50 per cent.
This peace is broken by the greater restlessness of his wife, the fruit of her greater intellectual resilience and curiosity.
In the demimonde one will find enough acumen and daring, and enough resilience in the face of special difficulties, to put the equipment of any exclusively male profession to shame.
It speaks volumes not only for their high state of physical condition but for the resilience of their moral.
Were it not for this astounding gift of resilience one might deplore the prurient curiosity that wants to peep into the hollow image of Isis and get at the machinery of the priesthood.
Whether owing to the natural resilience of the Boer character after a brief phase of doubt, or to the news of De Wet's successful attacks on the railway in the Free State, the smouldering fires broke out anew early in July.
With a powerful constitution, he had kept his general health fairly, though strange fits of depression had consumed him of late, and the old strong spring and resilience seemed going, if not gone, from his mind and body.
If you turn the heads of the trees to your right, they are wrong, because gravity would have bent them more downwards; if to your left, wrong, because the law of resilience would have raised them more at the extremities.
Bamboo has per pound weight a greater resilience than any other suitable substance (silk and rubber are obviously useless as parts of the framework of an aeroplane).
If we take theresilience of ash as 1, then (according to Haswell) relative resilience of beech is 0.
The resilience (power of recovery after distortion) in tension of rubber is in considerable excess of any other substance, silk being the only other substance which at all approaches it in this respect, the ratio being about 11 : 9.
The resilience of steel spiral spring is very slight in comparison.
Where power is required, the change from the utmost resilience to the utmost rigidity is effected in the time necessary to close the fists.
Pillows should be well filled in order to retain their resilience and plump appearance.
A good felted mattress will give service for many years, but constant use eventually will destroy its resilience and produce lumps.
These types of hair frequently are mixed to produce mattress fillings of varying degrees of resilience and softness.
Shredded into fine filaments, baleen is now woven in with the other fibres in the manufacture of the finest French silks, imparting resilience and elasticity to the rich material.
The scow is made of green wood, and its resiliencestands it in good stead as, like a snake, it writhes through tight channels or over ugly bits of water.
His resilience had gone--sapped by the War--and with it his danger, which had been so attractive.
Her amazing resilience stood her in good stead in this crisis of her life,--to say nothing of her courage and queer sense of humor.
This quality of elasticity of the skin is due to the presence in it of the so-called yellow elastic fibres, cell products, with a resilience greater than anything devised by man.
The preservation of the resilience is a function of the internal secretions.
When I whipped back my arm I could feel a thrust of power and resilience in my shoulder muscles that amazed me, because it shouldn't have been there.
I smashed my fist into his groin twice, putting so much shoulder-to-elbow resilience into the blows that he bent almost double, wrapped his arms about his middle just above his groin and went staggering backwards.
So it was with Ireland; and yet it cannot fail to strike any student of history what an extraordinary resilience she showed again and again under any transient phase of wise and tolerant government.
In point of fact, Irish local authorities, under the circumstances, are wonderfully free from these evils, only another proof of the resilience and vitality of the country under persistent mismanagement.
The areas of the triangles 0(EL)A and 0(EL)B represent the elasticresilience of the dry and green beams, respectively.
Here not only strength, but toughness and resilience are important.
Physical Resilience ¶ A general elasticity of structure, a suggestion of sinews and physical resilience characterizes this type.
Physical Solidity ¶ A general solidity of structure, as distinguished from the softness of the Alimentive and the resilience of the Thoracic, characterizes the Muscular.
