elasticity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
elasticity
- (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.
- If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is -0.5.
- (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- (mathematics) 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.
- Synonyms: point elasticity
- The quality of being elastic.
- Adaptability.
- Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.
- French: élasticité
- German: Elastizität
- Italian: elasticità
- Portuguese: elasticidade
- Russian: эласти́чность
- Spanish: elasticidad
- French: élasticité
- German: Elastizität
- Portuguese: elasticidade
- Russian: упру́гость
- Spanish: elasticidad
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