Elastic may refer to:
- Elastic, a colloquial noun for certain kinds of elastomers and stretchable fabrics
- Elastic collision, collisions in which kinetic energy is conserved
- Elastic deformation, a reversible deformation of a material
- Elasticity (physics), the physical property of a material that returns to its original shape
- Elasticity (economics), the responsiveness of demand or supply
- Elastic, an alternative name for the skipping game Chinese jump rope
- Elastic (album), an album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman
- A Rubber band or bungee cord
- Elastic Superheroes (ex, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, etc.)
Famous quotes containing the word elastic:
“We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit. An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“bodies wrapped in elastic bands,
bodies cased in wood or used like telephones,
bodies crucified up onto their crutches,
bodies wearing rubber bags between their legs,
bodies vomiting up their juice like detergent,
bodies smooth and bare as darning eggs.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)