Elasticity
/ˌiːlæˈstɪsəti/noun
The ability of something to return to its original shape or size after being stretched or compressed.
The elasticity of the rubber band allows it to be stretched and then return to its normal size.
Often appears as...
- price elasticity
- income elasticity
noun
The degree to which changes in the price of a product or service affect its demand or supply.
The price elasticity of demand for luxury goods is usually high.
Often appears as...
- price elasticity of demand
- elasticity of substitution
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Academic
noun
A measure of a physical property that involves a material's ability to deform and return to its initial size and shape.
In physics, we study the elasticity of different materials to understand their properties.
Often appears as...
- elasticity of stress
- elasticity of strain
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Formal
Academic
noun
The ability of something to return to its original shape or size after being stretched or compressed.
The elasticity of the rubber band allows it to be stretched and then return to its normal size.
Often appears as...
- price elasticity
- income elasticity
noun
The degree to which changes in the price of a product or service affect its demand or supply.
The price elasticity of demand for luxury goods is usually high.
Often appears as...
- price elasticity of demand
- elasticity of substitution
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
A measure of a physical property that involves a material's ability to deform and return to its initial size and shape.
In physics, we study the elasticity of different materials to understand their properties.
Often appears as...
- elasticity of stress
- elasticity of strain
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Objects
Usually used to describe the flexibility of tangible materials, not abstract concepts or feelings.
The elasticity of the new yoga mat was impressive.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-permanent Change
Elasticity implies that after stretching or compression, the object should return to its original form.
Foam's elasticity makes it perfect for cushions.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically, to describe the adaptability of something non-physical, like a system.
The business model's elasticity allows it to work in various markets.
Compare with
adaptabilitydurabilityflexibilitymalleabilitypermeanceplasticitypliancyresilienceversatile
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Technology makes way for...
ask you also think are there other areas of African life where this same principle can be applied because it seems to me that in that way you suck corruption out of parts of the system the second part is selling shortage is to do with price elasticity that's another economists fancy term
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How do scars form? -...
but instead of the basket-weave formation found in healthy tissue, the new ECM is aligned in a single direction, impeding inter-cell processes, and reducing durability and elasticity. To make matters worse, the healed tissue contains a higher proportion of ECM than before,
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How to create a space...
okay it's better than lifting big power weights right we dial in the tension of the elasticity from your shoulders down to your soles to recreate one body loading as you're pushing around and flying around but we even more passionate about the earth applications
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Paola Antonelli: Design...
Elasticity of mind is something that we really need, you know, we really need, we really cherish and we really work on. And this exhibition is about the work of designers that help us be more elastic, and also of designers that really work on this elasticity
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Why do we have to wear...
Photoaging from chronic sun exposure leads to a loss of elasticity in the skin, in other words, making it look saggy. Take a look at this truck driver who's left side was chronically exposed to the sun and notice the difference. This is an important point.
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What if 3D printing was...
There it is. That's great. You always take the risk that something like this won't work onstage, right? But we can have materials with great mechanical properties. For the first time, we can have elastomers that are high elasticity or high dampening.
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Design at the...
One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view,
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Three ways the universe...
is just strong enough to stretch the rubber band until it loses its elasticity. The expansion wouldn’t be able to accelerate anymore, but the universe would keep getting bigger. Clusters of galaxies would separate.
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Leather and meat without...
You don't have that kind of fine control with conventional leather. And we can tune this leather for other desirable qualities, like softness, breathability, durability, elasticity and even things like pattern.
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Why do your jeans wear...
to increase the yarn’s elasticity. These plastic threads make modern jeans more comfortable and flexible, but also much less durable. Next, the yarn is dyed jeans’ trademark blue.
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Technology makes way for...
ask you also think are there other areas of African life where this same principle can be applied because it seems to me that in that way you suck corruption out of parts of the system the second part is selling shortage is to do with price elasticity that's another economists fancy term
Video examples
How do scars form? -...
but instead of the basket-weave formation found in healthy tissue, the new ECM is aligned in a single direction, impeding inter-cell processes, and reducing durability and elasticity. To make matters worse, the healed tissue contains a higher proportion of ECM than before,
Video examples
How to create a space...
okay it's better than lifting big power weights right we dial in the tension of the elasticity from your shoulders down to your soles to recreate one body loading as you're pushing around and flying around but we even more passionate about the earth applications
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Design...
Elasticity of mind is something that we really need, you know, we really need, we really cherish and we really work on. And this exhibition is about the work of designers that help us be more elastic, and also of designers that really work on this elasticity
Video examples
Why do we have to wear...
Photoaging from chronic sun exposure leads to a loss of elasticity in the skin, in other words, making it look saggy. Take a look at this truck driver who's left side was chronically exposed to the sun and notice the difference. This is an important point.
Video examples
What if 3D printing was...
There it is. That's great. You always take the risk that something like this won't work onstage, right? But we can have materials with great mechanical properties. For the first time, we can have elastomers that are high elasticity or high dampening.
Video examples
Design at the...
One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier, and yet it's the same no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity. So here this is a split screen to represent my split world view,
Video examples
Three ways the universe...
is just strong enough to stretch the rubber band until it loses its elasticity. The expansion wouldn’t be able to accelerate anymore, but the universe would keep getting bigger. Clusters of galaxies would separate.
Video examples
Leather and meat without...
You don't have that kind of fine control with conventional leather. And we can tune this leather for other desirable qualities, like softness, breathability, durability, elasticity and even things like pattern.
Video examples
Why do your jeans wear...
to increase the yarn’s elasticity. These plastic threads make modern jeans more comfortable and flexible, but also much less durable. Next, the yarn is dyed jeans’ trademark blue.
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Jose Carreras
Spanish Musician
The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems to access something dark and true in us that other modes of fiction are often a bit prissy about touching. But the key to making it work as time and culture moves on is to use the elasticity, not just the power.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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Adrianne Lenker
American Musician
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
American Novelist
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
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Marie Helvin
American Model
The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
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Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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Jose Carreras
Spanish Musician
The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.
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Richard K. Morgan
English Author
I think noir is an immensely powerful - and elastic - lens through which to look at narrative and character. It seems to access something dark and true in us that other modes of fiction are often a bit prissy about touching. But the key to making it work as time and culture moves on is to use the elasticity, not just the power.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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Yoko Ono
American Artist
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
Quote examples
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Quote examples
Adrianne Lenker
American Musician
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Gilbert
American Novelist
Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.
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Henry Gray
English Scientist
Bone is one of the hardest structures of the animal body; it possesses also a certain degree of toughness and elasticity.
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Marie Helvin
American Model
The only thing I can't change is the elasticity of my skin.
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Kenneth Branagh
Irish Actor
The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
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