Usually means: Rebound of material after deformation.
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  1. spring back: Merriam-Webster
  2. spring-back, spring back: Wordnik
  3. spring back: Wiktionary
  4. Spring back: Dictionary.com
  5. Spring back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. spring back: FreeDictionary.org
  7. spring back: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

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  1. spring back: Idioms

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  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spring back)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To recoil; to bounce back; to recover to an improved position.

Similar:
rebound, result, rebounce, reverberate, bound, rejump, bounce, revibrate, carom, spring, more...

Opposite:
recoil, retreat, withdraw, flinch

Phrases:
able to spring back, more...

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Similar:
rebound, result, rebounce, reverberate, bound, rejump, bounce, revibrate, carom, spring, more...

Opposite:
recoil, retreat, withdraw, flinch

Phrases:
able to spring back, more...



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