ELASTICITY

Pronunciation (US):

• ELASTICITY (noun)
  The noun ELASTICITY has 1 sense:

1. the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed

  Familiarity information: ELASTICITY used as a noun is very rare.

• ELASTICITY (noun)

Meaning:

The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

elasticity; snap

Context example:

the waistband had lost its snap

Hypernyms ("elasticity" is a kind of...):

physical property (a property used to characterize physical objects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elasticity"):

resilience; resiliency (the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit)

bounce; bounciness (the quality of a substance that is able to rebound)

give; spring; springiness (the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length)

stretch; stretchability; stretchiness (the capacity for being stretched)

temper; toughness (the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking)

elasticity of shear (the elasticity of a body that has been pulled out of shape by a shearing force)

Antonym:

inelasticity (the lack of elasticity)