ELASTIC ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elastic energy mean? 

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

1. potential energy that is stored when a body is deformed (as in a coiled spring)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELASTIC ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Potential energy that is stored when a body is deformed (as in a coiled spring)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

elastic energy; elastic potential energy

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

P.E.; potential energy (the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; stored energy)

 Context examples 

When the material is heated above 32C, the nanoparticles store large amounts of elastic energy in a fraction of a second, as the polymer coatings expel all the water and collapse.

(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)