Elastic is a word often used to describe or identify certain types of
elastomer
An elastomer is a polymer with viscoelasticity (i.e. both viscosity and elasticity) and with weak intermolecular forces, generally low Young's modulus (E) and high failure strain compared with other materials. The term, a portmanteau of ''ela ...
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elastic used in garments or
stretchable fabrics.
Elastic may also refer to:
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Rubber band
A rubber band (also known as an elastic, gum band or lacky band) is a loop of rubber, usually ring or oval shaped, and commonly used to hold multiple objects together. The rubber band was patented in England on March 17, 1845, by Stephen Perry ...
, ring-shaped band of rubber used to hold objects together
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Bungee cord
file:Bungee Cord PICT6882a.jpg, Bungee cords equipped with metal hooks
A bungee cord (sometimes spelled bungie; also known as a shock cord or an ocky strap) is an elastomer, elastic cord composed of one or more elastic strands forming a core, usua ...
, a cord composed of an elastic core covered in a sheath
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Chinese jump rope, a children's game resembling hopscotch and jump rope
As a proper name
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''Elastic'' (album), a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman
*"Elastic", a 2018 single by
Joey Purp
*Elastic, working title of the 2012 Indian film
''Cocktail''
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Elastic NV
Elastic NV is a Dutch software company that provides self-managed and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for search, logging, cyber security, observability, analytics, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. It was founded in 2 ...
, the company that releases the Elasticsearch search engine
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Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a Search engine (computing), search engine based on Apache Lucene, a free and open-source search engine. It provides a distributed, Multitenancy, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema ...
, a search engine based on Apache Lucene
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of ap ...
(Amazon EC2), a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in a cloud format
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Elastics (orthodontics)
Elastics are rubber bands frequently used in the field of orthodontics to correct different types of malocclusions. The elastic wear is prescribed by an orthodontist or a dentist in an orthodontic treatment. The longevity of the elastic wear may v ...
, rubber bands used in orthodontics
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Elastic collision
In physics, an elastic collision occurs between two physical objects in which the total kinetic energy of the two bodies remains the same. In an ideal, perfectly elastic collision, there is no net loss of kinetic energy into other forms such a ...
, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved
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Elastic deformation
In engineering, deformation (the change in size or shape of an object) may be ''elastic'' or ''plastic''.
If the deformation is negligible, the object is said to be ''rigid''.
Main concepts
Occurrence of deformation in engineering application ...
, reversible deformation of a material
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Elasticity (disambiguation)
Elasticity often refers to:
* Elasticity (physics), continuum mechanics of bodies that deform reversibly under stress
Elasticity may also refer to:
Information technology
* Elasticity (data store), the flexibility of the data model and the ...
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Flex (disambiguation)
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Stretch (disambiguation)
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