Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an elastic manner; with elasticity or power of accommodation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
elastic manner
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Examples
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If we are to group him at all, it must be with the essayists, using that term elastically enough to include with him our own Irving, and such Englishmen as Swift and Carlyle.
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Resilience is defined, in physics, as the capacity of some material to absorb energy and respond elastically so as to retain its integrity and not become deformed as a result of the forces it is subject to.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Haiti: Trauma And Resilience A Year After The Earthquake MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2011
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Resilience is defined, in physics, as the capacity of some material to absorb energy and respond elastically so as to retain its integrity and not become deformed as a result of the forces it is subject to.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Haiti: Trauma And Resilience A Year After The Earthquake MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2011
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As data continues to grow at alarming rates, cloud provides the platform to elastically grow to support the increasing data volume.
Steve Hamby: Top Three Technologies to Tame the Big Data Beast Steve Hamby 2011
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Resilience is defined, in physics, as the capacity of some material to absorb energy and respond elastically so as to retain its integrity and not become deformed as a result of the forces it is subject to.
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: Haiti: Trauma And Resilience A Year After The Earthquake MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2011
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"Black Curve Diagonal," climbing and falling—as clean as a whistle; as weighted as a death rattle—extends elastically, laterally.
Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011
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Low-quality land and agricultural workers are too elastically supplied to be big gainers.
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As to your point two, I would expect that the group most likely to save rather than spend is the same group that will be paying the bills and they supply, arguably, labor more elastically, and have a lower MPS.
Matthew Yglesias » CBO Analysis Highlights Staggering “Output Gap” Absent Fiscal Stimulus 2009
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And if the ball has more kinetic energy on the throw (elastically returned after hitting it with a bat) and the bat has more energy, you are going to get a greater distance travelled – equalling more home runs.
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All this straining on their part about “information theory” and impossibilities is directly related to their underlying misconception or deliberate misrepresentation that atoms and molecules just bang off each other elastically unless some “intelligence” produces some kind of arrangements of these.
Stephen Meyer's Bogus Information Theory - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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