elastic device

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

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Questions about elastic device

What does elastic device mean?

elastic device means "any flexible device that will return to its original shape when stretched".

Is elastic device a common word?

elastic device is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.