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INELASTICITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lack of elasticity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("inelasticity" is a kind of...):
physical property (any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inelasticity"):
deadness (the physical property of something that has lost its elasticity)
stiffness (the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend)
rigidity; rigidness (the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending)
Antonym:
elasticity (the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed)
Derivation:
inelastic (not elastic)
