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41elastic tissue — n tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers that is found esp. in some ligaments and tendons * * * strong extensible flexible connective tissue rich in yellow elastic fibres. These fibres are long, thin, and branching and are composed primarily …
42Elastic Press — is a British small press specialising in single author short story collections. It is run by Andrew Hook and is based in Norwich. In 2005 Elastic received a British Fantasy Award for Best Small Press. Books Published by Elastic Press * The Turing …
43Elastic artery — Code TH H3.09.02.0.01010 An elastic artery (or large elastic artery or conducting artery) is an artery with a large number of collagen and elastin filaments in the tunica media, which gives it the ability to stretch in response to each pulse.… …
44Elastic recoil detection — is a nuclear technique in materials science to obtain elemental concentration depth profiles in thin films. An energetic ion beam is directed at the sample to be depth profiled and (as in Rutherford backscattering) there is an elastic nuclear… …
45Elastic scoring — is a style of orchestration or music arrangement that was first used by the Australian composer Percy Grainger.This unique technique of orchestration is used to provide composers with the option of allowing a diverse group of voices or… …
46Elastic Matching — is one of the pattern recognition technique in computer science. Elastic matching (EM) is also known as deformable template, flexible matching, or nonlinear template matching.Elastic matching can be defined as an optimization problem of two… …
47elastic cartilage — n a yellowish flexible cartilage having the matrix infiltrated in all directions by a network of elastic fibers and occurring chiefly in the external ear, eustachian tube, and some cartilages of the larynx and epiglottis * * * a type of cartilage …
48elastic demand — ➔ demand * * * elastic demand UK US noun [U] ► ECONOMICS a situation in which a change in a product s price causes a big change in the number of products sold: »Commodities that are likely to have many substitutes, such as public transportation… …
49Elastic instability — is a form of instability occurring in elastic systems, such as buckling of beams and plates subject to large compressive loads. ingle degree of freedom systemsConsider as a simple example a rigid beam of length L , hinged in one end and free in… …
50Elastic Planet — was a six part radio comedy series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. In the style of a very surreal documentary, it was written by Ben Moor, narrated by Oliver Postgate and produced by Jon Naismith.The series deals with subject such as the… …
