Rubber banding or rubberbanding may refer to:
Banding (medical), using an elastic band to constrict an area in medicine rubber band ligation, a treatment for internal hemorrhoids that cuts off blood flow to the hemorrhoid, causing it to shrink and fall off in days elastration, using banding to remove the tail or scrotum of an animal in online video gaming, rubber banding is the undesirable visual effect of latency, known as lag, in which a moving object appears to leap from one place to another without passing through the intervening space; also called "warping" or "teleporting". More specifically, as a character runs forward it will reappear to where it was previously, as if a rubber band was attached and snapped the character back. This occurs when there is a desync between the system the game is being played on and the online server, where the server keeps resetting the character to a previous point. in video games, generally speaking, the rubberband effect in dynamic game difficulty balancing is where AI characters falling behind may get a boost by the game while those ahead may be hindered. in 2D computer graphics, anchoring a line segment at one end and moving the other end in console gaming, this can refer to the act of holding a trigger down with a rubber band in order to perform some kind of auto-attack or cheat. in online conferencing it can refer to distortion of the voice that speeds up, slows down or cuts out