Our science teacher used a bungee cord to demonstrate the properties of an elastic substance. From LearnThat.org.
An elastic band. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Light streamed among them, reaching outward in elastic fields of energy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference
Her best satin pair was sprouting tiny ropes of elastic from the waistband. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares] Reference
Politicians do understand that energy responds to what economists term elastic demand. From Wordnik.com. [McCook Daily Gazette Headlines] Reference
The big question that drives this is, for RPGs in general, and for a given product, how elastic is the price curve really?. From Wordnik.com. [So What Is A “Fair” Price For A Gaming PDF? « Geek Related] Reference
If you know anything about economics, you know the terms elastic, inelastic, and luxury in reference to goods and services. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Rock at that temperature is 'elastic' - it will actually flow. From Wordnik.com. [Doughy Pantload, lowering the bar yet again.] Reference
The material called elastic water is developed by scientists at Japan?. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis » Links for 2010-01-26] Reference
(Our ancestors called the elastic waistband the "Devil's Playground" for this reason.). From Wordnik.com. [Obesity, Recession Take Bite out of Fashion Dollar] Reference
Space Bikers uses an advanced physics engine to explore the notion of elastic motorcycles. From Wordnik.com. [GamesIndustry.biz - News] Reference
Space Bikers - Physics-based iPhone platformer "exploring the notion of elastic motorcycles". From Wordnik.com. [GamesIndustry.biz - News] Reference
You can’t compare yourself to people who live there and elastic is in. lol Ok, in my world anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Frump City] Reference
This is like viscosity, except that there's a minimum stress known as the elastic limit below which there is no plasticity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-09-01] Reference
The vein was very "elastic" and escaped her needle when she tried to hit it. From Wordnik.com. [A week roundup for my diary.] Reference
The Fed was supposed to create an "elastic" currency that would stabilize the economy. From Wordnik.com. [Greenspan's Finest Hour?] Reference
A pressure (called elastic force) that tends to restore them to their former condition. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Last October, The New York Times accused Mellencamp of having "elastic" political values. From Wordnik.com. [John Mellencamp: One from the Heartland] Reference
Yet hope again elastic springs. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell] Reference
Giving thanks for life's bounties, such as elastic. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Music Superstar Beyonce Completes 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards Performer Lineup] Reference
It also scales, or is an "elastic" resource, for the end user. From Wordnik.com. [InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs] Reference
Nothing ever started on time, we were told time was 'elastic'. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Meanwhile the most "elastic" producers, BP and ConocoPhillips, are boxed out. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The orbit is 'elastic' and contracts and expands in a cycle of 100.000 years. From Wordnik.com. [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference
Bittner wasn't finished yet with highlighting the 'elastic' qualities of The Cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News from Web 2.0 Journal] Reference
Cheer up, I only knew "elastic" meant rubber band and I've lived here over ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Small & Big] Reference
Luckily, we can draw on the idea that spirit matter is "elastic" to account for this. From Wordnik.com. [New Cool Thang] Reference
First, they offer a more 'elastic' capacity model that can grow and shrink on demand. From Wordnik.com. [ASP.NET Weblogs] Reference
What you thought was a pretty static city or home environment suddenly becomes 'elastic'. From Wordnik.com. [PERSONALIZE MEDIA] Reference
Class I medical devices include items such as elastic bandages -- hardly an equal danger. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Women's Health] Reference
He was of medium height and loosely built, with a kind of elastic grace in his disjointedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
She was a brave creature who had a kind of elastic soul, which became enthusiastic at a bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories] Reference
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Gross compared the earth to a kind of elastic putty. From Wordnik.com. [eWeek - RSS Feeds] Reference
He's trying to get words to be "elastic," and to mean "the opposite of what they appear to mean.". From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
12 March, 15: 15 - Physics-based iPhone platformer "exploring the notion of elastic motorcycles". From Wordnik.com. [The game retail industry according to MCV] Reference
The new material, called elastic. From Wordnik.com. ['Elastic Water' Created By Japanese Researchers] Reference
"elastic" system it was gravely proposed to pictorially mount the. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
"elastic" computing capacity and is making inroads with the idea. From Wordnik.com. Reference
But it's bulky and hangs awkwardly from the elastic waistband of my shorts. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Buy?] Reference
The war on terror is such an elastic phrase, it can mean almost anything you want. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomatic Diary: The Ever-Expanding War on Terror] Reference
It would be more elastic, meaning it would respond more to changes in the economy. ". From Wordnik.com. [Dallas Business News - Local Dallas News | Dallas Business Journal] Reference
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