REBOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rebound mean? 

• REBOUND (noun)
  The noun REBOUND has 3 senses:

1. a movement back from an impact

2. a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration

3. the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot

  Familiarity information: REBOUND used as a noun is uncommon.

• REBOUND (verb)
  The verb REBOUND has 2 senses:

1. spring back; spring away from an impact

2. return to a former condition

  Familiarity information: REBOUND used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REBOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movement back from an impact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

backlash; rebound; recoil; repercussion

Hypernyms ("rebound" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rebound"):

bounce; bouncing (rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts))

resilience; resiliency (an occurrence of rebounding or springing back)

carom; ricochet (a glancing rebound)

Derivation:

rebound (spring back; spring away from an impact)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he is still on the rebound from his wife's death

Hypernyms ("rebound" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Derivation:

rebound (return to a former condition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rebound" is a kind of...):

catch; grab; snap; snatch (the act of catching an object with the hands)

Holonyms ("rebound" is a part of...):

basketball; basketball game; hoops (a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop)

• REBOUND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rebound ... he / she / it rebounds
Past simple: rebounded   
Past participle: rebounded   
-ing form: rebounding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spring back; spring away from an impact

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bounce; bound; rebound; recoil; resile; reverberate; ricochet; spring; take a hop

Context example:

These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide

Hypernyms (to "rebound" is one way to...):

bound; jump; leap; spring (move forward by leaps and bounds)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rebound"):

kick; kick back; recoil (spring back, as from a forceful thrust)

bound off; skip (bound off one point after another)

carom (rebound after hitting)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

rebound (a movement back from an impact)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Return to a former condition

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

rally; rebound

Context example:

The stock market rallied

Hypernyms (to "rebound" is one way to...):

go back; recover; recuperate (regain a former condition after a financial loss)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

The stock market is going to rebound
The business is going to rebound

Derivation:

rebound (a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration)

 Context examples 

No spring or rebound was left in them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Earth's surface falls locally when it is weighed down with water and rebounds when the weight disappears.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

His splendid body and health made new vitality, and he possessed all the resiliency and rebound of youth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This rebound swamped the acceleration caused by the warming climate and made the rate of sea level rise higher in the mid- and late 1990s than it otherwise would have been.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Unlike most current models, we included solid Earth processes - such as the elastic rebound of the bedrock under the ice, and the impact of changes in sea level very close to the ice sheet, said JPL's Eric Larour, first author of the study.

(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)

This study shows that, despite a common perception that ecological systems are resilient, they can be so slow to rebound that they're unlikely to return to the same undisturbed state, says Francisco Moore, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

Until now, a key question was whether the new soot- and sand-like dust particles would survive the subsequent inward rebound shock wave generated when the first, outward-moving shock wave collides with surrounding interstellar gas and dust.

(Missing Link Between Supernovae and Planet Formation, NASA)

Before this study, scientists' leading theories for the growth of the Sierra were tectonic uplift or Earth rebounding from extensive groundwater pumping in the adjoining California Central Valley.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

As the sunlight-blocking aerosols from Mount Pinatubo dissipated in the simulations, sea levels began to slowly rebound to pre-eruption levels.

(Volcanic eruption masked acceleration in sea level rise, NSF)

Many other factors also change the ground level, such as the movement of tectonic plates, volcanic activity, high- and low-pressure weather systems, and Earth's slow rebound from the last ice age.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)