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noun Mechanics.

a collision in which the total kinetic energy of the colliding bodies or particles is the same after the collision as it was before (opposed to inelastic collision).

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Origin of elastic collision

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby elastic collision

elasticate, elastic band, elastic bandage, elastic cartilage, elastic clause, elastic collision, elastic deformation, elastic fiber, elasticin, elasticity, elasticize

How to use elastic collision in a sentence

One witness said the gunfire began after a traffic collision, which drew the attention of a nearby police officer.
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The second was that the demand for seduction schooling was elastic.
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Physicians are overwhelmed because we are in the middle of a collision of powerful unrestrained forces.
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It was this music that would set up the collision between poor blacks and middle-class whites that would result in Rock & Roll.
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The “cultural collision of Brits and Yanks threatened but never quite broke the partnership,” writes Symonds.
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Accordingly, the question "How far does the note issue under the new system seem likely to prove an elastic one?"
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The sputum of more advanced cases resembles that of chronic bronchitis, with the addition of tubercle bacilli and elastic fibers.
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He used every artifice to prevent a collision between the French and Neapolitan troops.
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Industrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
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The non-elastic character of water made it unsuitable for a machine requiring a fly-wheel.
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Scientific definitions for elastic collision

elastic collision

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Physics

A collision between bodies in which the total kinetic energy of the bodies is conserved. In a perfectly elastic collision, no energy is dissipated as heat energy internal to the bodies, and none is spent on permanently deforming the bodies or radiated away in some other fashion. Elastic collisions, such as the collision of a rubber ball on a hard surface, result in the reflection or bouncing of bodies away from each other. Comapre inelastic collision.