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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 ...
, elastic used in garments or stretchable fabrics. Elastic may also refer to:


Alternative name

* Rubber band, ring-shaped band of rubber used to hold objects together *
Bungee cord Bungee cords equipped with metal hooks A bungee cord (sometimes spelled bungle; also known as a shock cord) is an elastic cord composed of one or more elastic strands forming a core, usually covered in a woven cotton or polypropylene sheath. The ...
, a cord composed of an elastic core covered in a sheath * Chinese jump rope, a children's game resembling hopscotch and jump rope


As a proper name

* ''Elastic'' (album), a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman * Elastic NV, the company that releases the Elasticsearch search engine **
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java and is dual ...
, a search engine based on Apache Lucene *
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com'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 o ...
(Amazon EC2), a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in a cloud format * Elastics (orthodontics), rubber bands used in orthodontics


See also

* Elastic collision, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved * Elastic deformation, reversible deformation of a material *
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 c ...
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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 ...
* Stretch (disambiguation) * * {{disambiguation