Elasticity

(noun.) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; 'the waistband had lost its snap'.

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• It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Now the balance spring of a watch is made from steel, and is carefully tempered in order to obtain its highest elasticity. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• By that means, the gas is generated in a closed vessel, and forces itself into the water by its own elasticity. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Sir,' rejoined Mrs. Sparsit, 'there was wont to be an elasticity in you which I sadly miss. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It lies near the pliable elasticity by which some persons take on the color of their surroundings while retaining their own bent. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The troubles of a family, the business of making money, the demands of a profession destroy the elasticity of the mind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This heating or vulcanizing process fixes the elasticity of the rubber, increases its strength enormously and unites the parts in such a way as to make the shoe practically one piece. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In it is coiled the mainspring--a strip of steel about twenty-three inches long, which is carefully tempered to insure elasticity and pull. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Mere amassing of information apart from the direct interests of life makes mind wooden; elasticity disappears. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She returned to town in a glow of rejuvenation, conscious of a clearer colour in her cheeks, a fresh elasticity in her muscles. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He felt able to prove that the elasticity of the air could under circumstances do far more than sustain t wenty-nine or thirty inches of mercury. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There is an energy, an elasticity in his mind, which enables him to seize on and analyze all questions, pushing them to their legitimate cons equences. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• First, it enlarges the balance wheel; second, it increases the length of the spring; third, it reduces the elasticity of the spring. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These frames have very little elasticity, and we take it as an historical commonplace that sooner or later a revolution must come to burst the frame apart. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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