English-Dutch translations for elasticity

• elasticiteit
  Al onze inspanningen moeten daarom gericht zijn op uitvoering van deze eerste fase, zij het dat zoveel mogelijk elasticiteit betracht moet worden. For this reason, all our efforts must go towards the introduction of this initial stage, with as much elasticity as possible.
• rekbaarheid
  We erkennen dat er slechts een beperkte rekbaarheid zit in het beheer van het openbare leven. We acknowledge that there is only a certain elasticity in the management of public affairs.

Definition of elasticity

• The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
• A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities
• 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
• The quality of being elastic

Examples

• If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is -0.5.
• Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.

Related words

• photoelasticity
• aeroelasticity
• ferroelasticity
• inelasticity
• thermoelasticity
• aerothermoelasticity
• magnetoelasticity
• hydroelasticity
• elasticity of substitution