INELASTICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inelasticity mean? 

• INELASTICITY (noun)
  The noun INELASTICITY has 1 sense:

1. the lack of elasticity

  Familiarity information: INELASTICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INELASTICITY (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)