resilience
- 01 C1 Advanced
the ability of a company or a computer system to keep working or fix itself after a major problem.
the capacity of a complex system or organisation to maintain or restore its core functions during and after a significant disruption.
Simple“The company's resilience was tested when their main server crashed for two days.”
In context“Engineers designed the network with high resilience to ensure that local power outages would not compromise the integrity of the global database.”
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“Experts questioned whether this resilience would be maintained, however, given growth was fuelled by some temporary factors and energy prices could remain volatile if the Middle East conflict continues.”
“He said he understood the objections of those living nearby, but added the pylons were "crucial" to ensure the National Grid maintained future resilience.”
From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + -ence.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.