viscoelastic.

Having both time-dependent viscous deformation and an elastic tendency to recover shape.

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Words that belong together

• a viscoelastic polymer
• viscoelastic behavior

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The viscoelastic seal recovered slowly after the pressure changed.

A viscoelastic layer absorbed the impact without behaving like a rigid plate.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Relational or structural adjective; use degree only for a specified measured property where appropriate. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.