ELASTICITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does elasticity mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• 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)
