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-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class III. Words Relating to Matter
Section II. Inorganic Matter
1. Solid Matter
325. Elasticity.
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NOUN: | ELASTICITY, springiness, spring, resilience or resiliency, renitency, buoyancy, tensibility, tensibleness, tensility, extensibility; recoil, rebound, reflex. [COMPARISONS] India rubber or india-rubber, caoutchouc, gum elastic, whalebone, baleen; turf, moss; balloon, battledore.
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VERB: | BE ELASTIC &c. adj.; spring back (recoil) [See Recoil].
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ADJECTIVE: | ELASTIC, tensile, tensible, springy, resilient, renitent, ductile, extensible, buoyant.
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