Usually means: Able to resume shape after stretching.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word elastic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. elastic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elastic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elastic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elastic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elastic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elastic, elastic: Wordnik
  7. elastic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elastic: Wiktionary
  9. elastic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elastic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elastic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. elastic: Dictionary.com
  13. elastic (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elastic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Elastic (album), Elastic (disambiguation), Elastic (notion), Elastic (solid mechanics), Elastic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Elastic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elastic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elastic: Rhymezone
  19. elastic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elastic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elastic: Free Dictionary
  22. elastic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elastic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. elastic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Elastic: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Elastic: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  6. Elastic: Investopedia
  7. elastic: Legal dictionary
  8. Elastic: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elastic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. elastic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ELASTIC: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elastic, Elastic: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elastic: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  2. elastic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See elastically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
adjective:  Made of elastic.
adjective:  Of clothing, elasticated.
adjective:  (economics) Sensitive to changes in price.
adjective:  springy; bouncy; vivacious
adjective:  Pervasive, all-encompassing.
adjective:  Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
noun:  (uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs.
noun:  (Canada, countable) An elastic band.
noun:  (Northeastern US) Specifically, a hair tie.

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