The action of resuming or tendency to resume a previous shape or position by virtue of elasticity or resilience. Now chiefly in coefficient of restit…

tensile condition or quality.

The quality of being elastic or resilient; elasticity.

†(a) the capacity or power to spring back into shape or position after compression, bending, etc.; = sense 13 (obsolete rare); (b) the capacity of a…

In literal sense. Cf. elastic, adj. 2 3.

An act of springing forward or back; (as a mass noun) the quality or characteristic of springing; elasticity. Cf. bear, n.3 Obsolete. rare.

The power to spring back into shape or position after compression, bending, etc.; the quality of… With reference to the elasticity of an object or…

Elasticity; = resilience, n. 2a.

Elasticity; the power of resuming an original shape or position after compression, bending, etc.