plural of ELA

(politics) ΕΛΑΣ (Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός), the Greek People's Liberation Army, the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (ΕΑΜ) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945.

A female given name

Initialism of enterprise licensing agreement. / Initialism of English language arts.

Of clothing or part of a garment, containing a strip or strips of elastic, especially in the waistband, cuffs or the ends of the legs, in order to make the clothing fit snugly.

Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released. / Made of elastic. / Of clothing, elasticated.

(uncountable) An elastic material used in clothing, particularly in waistbands and cuffs. / (countable) An elastic band.

A small, narrow loop of rubber or similar material used to hold items or body parts together.

(physics) An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance / (mechanics) The inverse of compliance

(physics) A quantity that measures an object or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e. non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it, defined as the ratio of stress to strain.