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removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.

Want of elasticity.

Inelasticity.

The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

ter stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in order to give it elasticity. It is used as a wrapping material for fragile articles, as bottles.

To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

ling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

elastic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

The quality of being elastic; elasticity.

Acting force; elasticity. [Obs.] Ray.

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.

To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. Nothing so flags the spirits. Echard.

or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.

erties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.

eral caoutchouc, an elastic mineral pitch, a variety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite. -- Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon. -- Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal. -- Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). -- Mineral gree…

onstant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter. Modulus of a machine, a formula expressing the work which a given machine can perform under the conditions involved in its construction; the relation between the work done upon…

Not having elasticity.

A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.

the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.