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elastic | American Dictionary

elastic
adjective
us/ɪˈlæs·tɪk/
(of a material) able to stretch and be returned to its original shape or size:
She bunched her ponytail and slipped on an elastic hair band.
If something that is not a physical object is elastic, it is able or likely to be changed:
Our plans are still very elastic.

elastic | Business English

elastic
adjective
uk /ɪˈlæstɪk/us
ECONOMICS
relating to a situation in which the number of products sold changes in relation to the product's price:
We're seeing the elastic effect of lower component prices encouraging demand for PCs.
Your problem is that you are in an exceptionally elastic market and your prices are simply not the lowest.
Luxury goods are price elastic.
able to change when conditions change:
International law must be elastic enough to meet new conditions created by change and progress in the world.

Examples of elastic

elastic
The quantity of experimental data [2], e (v) is the velocity-dependent overall frequency of electron elastic collisions.
Since the maximum plasma density used in our simulations is 10 critical densities or less, the influence of elastic collisions is not crucial.
In this regime, the elastic collisions dominate the electron balance energy, and the hydrodynamic or kinetic model can be applied.
Excitation and ionization processes, elastic and superelastic collisions, and electron- electron and electron ion- collisions were considered.
The second one called "fast dynamics" are associated to the "elastic links" motion.
Such procedures can be applied with distributions other than the logistic, for example with exponential and hyperbolic functions, also using the elastic barriers.
Anteriorly the alveolar segments are approximated using elastic strapping from cheek to cheek across the upper lip.
The elastic body image : the effect of television advertising and programming on body image distortions in young women.
The elastic lamination can be designed as a rubber covering, spoon layer, sandy bag or as an air bag.
The key to designing this controller is to include the base elastic deflections directly in the objective function of the neural network.
Modelling of brittle and fatigue damage for elastic materials by the growth of microvoids.
Hair elastics, bobby pins and hairnets should be the same colour as the cadet's hair.
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