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elasticidad — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • compliance noun The act of following rules, laws, or requests set by others.
  • 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.
  • stretch verb To pull or extend something so it becomes longer or tighter.

Senses

elasticidad is used for these senses in English:

  • compliance (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
  • resilience (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
  • stretch The ability to lengthen when pulled.
  • torsion (mechanics) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.

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.

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