bound vs elasticity

bound

noun
  • A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values. 

  • A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory. 

  • A sizeable jump, great leap. 

  • A spring from one foot to the other in dancing. 

adj
  • Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of). 

  • That cannot stand alone as a free word. 

  • Very likely (to), certain to 

  • Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound. 

  • Obliged (to). 

  • Constrained by a quantifier. 

  • Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound. 

verb
  • To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of. 

  • To be the bound of. 

  • I bound the splint to my leg. 

  • To leap, move by jumping. 

  • The rabbit bounded down the lane. 

  • To cause to leap. 

elasticity

noun
  • The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity. 

  • A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities. 

  • The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point. 

  • The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded 

  • A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources. 

  • Adaptability. 

  • The quality of being elastic. 

How often have the words bound and elasticity occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )