EGAVE

elasticity

About 5.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
  4. noun A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun The quality of being elastic.
  7. noun Adaptability.
    Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.

Similar words

elastic visco spring flexibility flexitime stretch resilience sensitivity give stress

Often followed by

of and is in for to with estimates theory

Word family

elasticities

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