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упру́гость — meaning in English

uprugost

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English meaning

  • elasticity noun The ability of a material to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed.
  • resilience noun The ability to recover quickly from difficulty.

Senses

упру́гость is used for these senses in English:

  • elasticity The quality of being elastic.
  • resilience (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

elasticity — full definition

  1. noun The ability of a material to return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed.
  2. noun In economics, a measure of how much demand or supply changes in response to a change in price or another factor.

resilience — full definition

  1. noun The ability to recover quickly from difficulty.
  2. noun The ability of a material to bounce back into shape after being bent or stretched.

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