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e·las·tic  audio  (-lstk) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
    1. Easily resuming original shape after being stretched or expanded; flexible. See Synonyms at flexible.
    2. Springy; rebounding.
  2. Physics Returning to or capable of returning to an initial form or state after deformation.
  3. Quick to recover, as from disappointment: an elastic spirit.
  4. Capable of adapting to change or a variety of circumstances.
NOUN:
    1. A flexible stretchable fabric made with interwoven strands of rubber or an imitative synthetic fiber.
    2. An object made of this fabric.
  2. A rubber band.
ETYMOLOGY:
New Latin elasticus, from Late Greek elastos, beaten, ductile, variant of Greek elatos, from elaunein, to beat out

OTHER FORMS:
e·lasti·cal·ly(Adverb)


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