English-Portuguese translations for elasticity
- elasticidadeExiste obviamente elasticidade na procura, trata-se de um caso de elasticidade de preços relativamente à procura. There is ,of course, elasticity of demand, in this case a price elasticity of demand. Em situações como a que se está a registar no Haiti hoje, o que é importante é a rapidez, adequação e elasticidade. In situations such as the one in Haiti today, what is important is speed, adequacy and elasticity. Reconhecemos que, na gestão da coisa pública, a elasticidade possível é limitada. 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.
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