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 ...
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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 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
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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
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Elastic NV, the company that releases the Elasticsearch search engine
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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
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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
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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)
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 ...
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Stretch (disambiguation)
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