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 and high failure strain compared with other materials. The term, a portmanteau of ''elastic p ...
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elastic used in garments or
stretchable fabrics.
Elastic may also refer to:
Alternative name
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Rubber band, ring-shaped band of rubber used to hold objects together
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Bungee cord, a cord composed of an elastic core covered in a sheath
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Chinese jump rope
Chinese jump rope (Chinese: 跳皮筋; pinyin: tiàopíjīn), also known as Chinese ropes, jumpsies,Block, John and Block, Tina (2013). ''It's a Hop, Skip, and Jump for Fitness and for Fun!'', p.27. WestBow Press. . elastics (British English: ...
, 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
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Elastic NV, the company that releases the Elasticsearch search engine
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Elasticsearch, a search engine based on Apache Lucene
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in a cloud format
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Elastics (orthodontics), rubber bands used in orthodontics
See also
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Elastic collision, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved
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Elastic deformation, reversible deformation of a material
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Elasticity (disambiguation)
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Flex (disambiguation)
Flex or FLEX may refer to:
Computing
* Flex (language), developed by Alan Kay
* FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system for the Motorola 6800
* FlexOS, an operating system developed by Digital Research
* FLEX (protocol), a comm ...
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Stretch (disambiguation)
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