elasticity
The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
Other meanings
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.”
A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
Related words
- fibroelasticity
- homoelasticity
- microelasticity
- morphoelasticity
- neuroelasticity
- piezoelasticity
- thermoelasticity
- aeroelasticity
- aero-servo-elasticity
- aerothermoelasticity
- arc elasticity
- cross elasticity of demand
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “elasticity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.