ELASTIC BAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elastic band mean? 

• ELASTIC BAND (noun)
  The noun ELASTIC BAND has 1 sense:

1. a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

  Familiarity information: ELASTIC BAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELASTIC BAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

elastic; elastic band; rubber band

Hypernyms ("elastic band" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

elastic device (any flexible device that will return to its original shape when stretched)

 Context examples 

In an instant I had caught him round the waist, and held him up while Holmes and Pycroft untied the elastic bands which had disappeared between the livid creases of skin.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A short elastic band that unites the epiglottis to the upper border of the hyoid bone.

(Hyoepiglottic Ligament, NCI Thesaurus)

Elastic bands used in orthodontics to move teeth in a desired direction.

(Elastics, NCI Thesaurus)