Elastic

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Elastic is often used colloquially to describe or identify certain types of elastomer and/or stretchable fabrics. It may also refer to:

• Elastic collision, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved
• Elastic deformation, a reversible deformation of a material
• Elasticity (economics), the responsiveness of demand or supply
• Elasticity (physics), the tendency of a solid material to revert to its previous shape after deformation
• Elastic (album), a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman
• Elastics (orthodontics), elastics used in orthodontics

Alternative name

• Rubber band, ring-shaped band of rubber used to hold objects together
• Bungee cord, a cord composed of an elastic core covered in a sheath
• Chinese jump rope, a children's game resembling hopscotch and jump rope
• Elasticsearch, a search engine based on Apache Lucene

See also

• All pages beginning with "Elastic"
• All pages with titles containing Elastic
• Elasticity (disambiguation)
• Flex (disambiguation)
• Stretch (disambiguation)