Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Elasticity

Nouns
  • elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience, renitency, buoyancy. rubber, India rubber, Indian rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic, baleen, natural rubber
  • neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic. flexibility, Young's modulus.
Verbs
  • stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic etc. adj.
  • bounce, spring back etc. (recoil) Recoil.
Adjectives
  • elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant
  • ductile, stretchable, extendable.
Phrases
  • the stress is proportional to the strain.