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Resiliency

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

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Backlash 76% connected

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Elasticity 76% connected

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rebound 76% connected

To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Recoil 76% connected

To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Repercussion 76% connected

The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resile 74% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resile 74% connected

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resilient 74% connected

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resilient 74% connected

Leaping back; rebounding; recoiling.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Resilience 92% connected

Alt. of Resiliency

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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