Inextensible: alternatives and connections

A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…

Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investi…

(physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and sod…

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…

(physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body

In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the remov…

A thin lamina of elastic cartilage forming the central portion of the epiglottis.

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Capable of being extended.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Having no fibers; destitute of fibers or fiber.

A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to differ…

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the tr…

(physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced