ELASTICITY
\ɪlastˈɪsɪti], \ɪlastˈɪsɪti], \ɪ_l_a_s_t_ˈɪ_s_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of ELASTICITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap"
By Princeton University
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The quality of being springy; power to spring back after being stretched; ability to recover from depression or gloom.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The property of being elastic, or of resuming the original shape upon the cessation of any distorting force.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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The power possessed by some bodies of returning to the position from which they are bent, drawn, or pressed; elastic bitumen, a mineral occurring in soft fungoid masses, with a resinous lustre, flexible and elastic.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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The property by which certain bodies return to their proper size and shape, where these have been modified by pressure or otherwise. It is possessed by the dead as well as by the living solid.
By Robley Dunglison
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The quality of resuming the normal size after compression or stretching.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
