Elastic is a word often used to describe or identify certain types of elastomer, elastic used in garments or stretchable fabrics.

Elastic may also refer to:

Alternative name

  • Rubber band, ring-shaped band of rubber used to hold objects together
  • Bungee cord, a cord composed of an elastic core covered in a sheath
  • Chinese jump rope, a children's game resembling hopscotch and jump rope

As a proper name

  • Elastic (album), a 2002 album by jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman
  • "Elastic", a 2018 single by Joey Purp
  • Elastic, working title of the 2012 Indian film Cocktail
  • Elastic NV, the company that releases the Elasticsearch search engine
  • Elasticsearch, a search engine based on Apache Lucene
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in a cloud format
  • Elastics (orthodontics), rubber bands used in orthodontics

See also

  • Elastic collision, a collision where kinetic energy is conserved
  • Elastic deformation, reversible deformation of a material
  • Elasticity (disambiguation)
  • Flex (disambiguation)
  • Stretch (disambiguation)