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• As the chest wall and lungs hyperinflate, they progressively resist further inflation by virtue of their elastic recoil characteristics.From the entry hyperinflate
• These phenomena may depend on the elastic properties of nuclear pasta found in the inner crust.2018 September 24, M. E. Caplan, A. S. Schneider, C. J. Horowitz, “Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 121…. From the entry nuclear pasta
• The force–displacement curve of perfectly plastic contact partners does not show elastic restitution.2011, Evangelos Tsotsas with Arun S. Mujumdar, Modern Drying Technology, Experimental Techniques - Page 314. From the entry restitution
• And there wasn't one plain white cotton and elastic over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder in the bunch.2009, Julie Miller, Jule McBride, Carrie Hudson, Oneclick Buy: April 2009 Harlequin Blaze. From the entry over-the-shoulder boulder holder
• A variety of dilators are available (mercury loaded tip, gum elastic) in varying sizes.2009, D.H. Parikh, David Crabbe, Alex Auldist, Pediatric Thoracic Surgery, page 318. From the entry bouginage
• He took out a brown packet bound in ordinary elastic bands.2006 June 1, James Patterson, The Thomas Berryman Number, Little, Brown, →ISBN. From the entry suitjacket
• A new R&D effort produced Huggies, a contour diaper with an hourglass shape and elastic leg bands.2005, Mark E. Parry, Strategic Marketing Management: A Means-end Approach, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry contour diaper
• If the dough is elastic, rolling into balls and forming into "crusts" would probably yield better results.1999 January 26, Jerry Roush , “Re: Another pizza question”, in rec.food.baking (Usenet). From the entry pizza bone
• Besides, I wouldn't have to wear those nerdy elastic bands to keep on my glasses.1989, J.G. Maxon, Progeny, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry zod
• When the swimbladder contracts, the tripodes will be rotated backwards by the elastic action of ligament 2.1964, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, volume 142, Longmans, Greens, page 431. From the entry tripodes
• They talked a delicate and elastic Arabic, and were mannered, often foppish, in habit.1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 148. From the entry foppish
• It cannot exist anywhere else, because it includes novelties like perfectly elastic bodies in perpetual motion.1906, Alexander Smith, Introduction to General Inorganic Chemistry, page 141. From the entry inverity
• This one-piece woven dress is constructed from three layers of cotton, with elastic woven into it to create shape.2023, Jenny Udale, Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments, 3rd edition, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, →ISBN. From the entry boxer short
• The coexistence of spin-states and observation of history-depending irreversibility is explained as effect of long-range elastic strains mediated by magnetovolume coupling.2016, N. Martin, I. Mirebeau, M. Deutsch, J.-P. Itié, J.-P. Rueff, U.K. Rössler, K. Koepernik, L.N. Fomicheva, A.V. Tsvyashchenko…. From the entry magnetovolume
• Some things I'm prepared to persevere with but my patience has an elastic limit and with calabrese it snapped.2015, Mark Diacono, The New Kitchen Garden, →ISBN. From the entry calabrese
• The engineered class of anti-tetrachiral cellular materials is phenomenologically characterized by a strong auxeticity of the elastic macroscopic response.2015, Andrea Bacigalupo, Marco Lepidi, “High-frequency parametric approximation of the Floquet-Bloch spectrum for anti-tetrachiral…. From the entry auxeticity
• We could play elastics, or skipping, without the need of anyone else to stand in the loops or hold the rope.2010, Jacinta Tynan, Some Girls Do...: My Life as a Teenager. From the entry elastics
• Consider a collection of objects – perfectly elastic pool balls, perhaps – rattling around inside a closed, isolated container.2004, Stephen Webb, “Symmetry”, in Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics, New…. From the entry translate
• It has an outer frame within is set a kind of thin elastic tuning fork with its end protruding upwards.1999, Umesh Jadia, Kachchh: An Introduction to the Historical Places, Textile Embroideries, Arts & Crafts Etc. of Kachchh. From the entry morchang
• It is a highly elastic space, with enormous semogenic potential.1999, Michael A[lexander] K[irkwood] Halliday, “The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause”…. From the entry metaphoricness
• Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25.1997, John Rink, Chopin: The Piano Concertos, page 75. From the entry figuration
• In seismic processing substantial computing effort is consumed by programs based on the acoustic and elastic wave equation.1997, Ralph Phillip Bording, Larry R. Lines, Seismic Modeling and Imaging with the Complete Wave Equation, SEG Books, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry wave equation
• Huge bow under chin: Cut it from cardboard, paint with bright polkadots, or glue fabric on it; elastic strap around neck.1986, Leila Albala, “Clowns”, in Easy Halloween Costumes for Children, 2nd edition, Chambly, Que.: ALPEL, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry clowny
• Dynamically by measuring velocities of elastic longitudinal waves dispersing through the rocky mass between the soundage borings .1961, B. Kujundžić, Testing Mechanical Features of Rocks, page 14. From the entry soundage
• I could see the elastic going over their ears.1936, P. G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas. From the entry beaver
• Of the many anti-shock devices now on the market, those depending on the elastic force of compressed air hold certain advantages.1907, Car Illustrated: A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea, & Air. From the entry anti-shock
• In older cases, it may be distinctly sclerosed, with much hyaline connective tissue, and many newly-formed but degenerate elastic fibres.1906, John M. Cowan, “The Current Theories Regarding the Causation of Arterio-Sclerosis”, in The Practitioner, 76: 323. From the entry newly-formed
• The elastic properties of neutron star crusts are relevant for a variety of currently observable or near-future electromagnetic and gravitational wave phenomena.2018 September 24, M. E. Caplan, A. S. Schneider, C. J. Horowitz, “Elasticity of Nuclear Pasta”, in Physical Review Letters, volume 121…. From the entry nuclear pasta
• Soft elastic substrates with a wave-like topology were micromolded from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and fluorescent marker beads were distributed homogeneously in the substrate.2016, Jerome R. Soine, Nils Hersch, Georg Dreissen, Nico Hampe, Bernd Hoffmann, Rudolf Merkel, Ulrich S. Schwarz, “Measuring cellular…. From the entry micromolded
• The quality of the resistance from R1 to R2, the elastic zone, is then assessed as well as the end-feel to the movement.2013, Elly Hengeveld, Kevin Banks, Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation, →ISBN. From the entry end-feel
• When a baby is placed in a jolly jumper, the baby occupies a secure seat hanging from a beam via two elastic bands.2009, David A. Rosenbaum, Human Motor Control, page 159. From the entry jolly jumper
• I was wearing a pair of elastic sides so, being a mug, slipped them off and put one on each of his horns.2006, Brian Taylor, The Moonlight Stallion and Other Yarns from the Australian Outback, Australia: Hachette, published 2012. From the entry elastic sides
• With a relatively inelastic IS curve and a relatively elastic LM curve Keynesianism became synonymous with 'fiscalism' and policies to fine tune the macroeconomy.1997, Brian Snowdon, Howard R. Vane, “The development of modern macroeconomics: A rough guide”, in Brian Snowdon, Howard R. Vane, editors…. From the entry fiscalism
• The elastic haematodochae are then distended hydraulically, pushing out and rotating the sclerites of the palpal organs, some of which lock it in position.1996, Michael J Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, published 1996, page 22. From the entry haematodocha
• She herself dressed in dark dresses of heavy rayon crêpe, with grey Lisle stockings bound under the knee with two loops of knotted elastic.1976, Angela Carter, “The Mother Lode”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 11. From the entry lisle

Meaning of elastic

1. adjective Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
2. adjective Made of elastic.
3. adjective Of clothing, elasticated.

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How do you use elastic in a sentence?

Elastic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The rope is somewhat elastic, so expect it to give when you pull on it.”

What is a short sentence with elastic?

“elastic spirits; an elastic constitution”

What does elastic mean?

Elastic means capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.