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.

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).

1. the act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling.
2. the power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; -- of objects and substances.
3. the power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people.
4. the mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.

1. the act of resiling, leaping, or springing back; the act of rebounding.
2. in machinery see the quotation.

1. the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
2. an occurrence of rebounding or springing back