elastic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
elastic /ɪˈlastɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 able to resume normal shape spontaneously after being stretched or squeezed.
- 2 flexible and adaptable: the definition is elastic.
■ Economics (of demand or supply) sensitive to changes in price or income.
- 3 Physics (of a collision) involving no decrease of kinetic energy.
– derivatives
elastically adverb,
elasticity /ɛlaˈstɪsɪti, iː-, ɪ-/ noun,
elasticize (or elasticise) verb.
elastically adverb,
elasticity /ɛlaˈstɪsɪti, iː-, ɪ-/ noun,
elasticize (or elasticise) verb.
– origin C17: from mod. L. elasticus, from Gk elastikos ‘propulsive’.
'elastic' also found in these Oxford entries:
aneroid
- baby bouncer
- bobble
- catapult
- Chelsea boot
- connective tissue
- cushion
- elastane
- elasticated
- elastic band
- elastic limit
- elastic modulus
- elastin
- elastomer
- frog
- gluten
- honey ant
- Hooke's law
- inelastic
- lancewood
- lens
- Lycra
- nylon
- plastic
- restitution
- rib
- roll-on
- rubber
- scrunchy
- ski pants
- sound wave
- spider
- spring
- stirrup pants
- stretch
- suspender
- vibration
- viscoelasticity
- whalebone
- yield point
