elastic energy

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

   Synonymselastic potential energy

   Broaderpotential energy

Questions about elastic energy

What does elastic energy mean?

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

What is another word for elastic energy?

Close synonyms include elastic potential energy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elastic energy a common word?

elastic energy 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.