inelastic
pronunciation
How to pronounce inelastic in British English:
UK [ˌɪnɪ'læstɪk]
How to pronounce inelastic in American English:
US [ˌɪnɪˈlæstɪk]
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- Adjective:
- not elastic
Word Origin
- inelastic (adj.)
- 1748, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + elastic. Figurative use attested by 1867.
Example
- 1. Totally inelastic collision : colliding objects stick together .
- 2. Jewellery demand might be more price inelastic , but that is also a matter of fashion to some extent , as a recent slide in sales suggests .
- 3. The human skeleton consists of more than two hundred bones bound together by tough and relatiely inelastic connectie tissues called ligaments .
- 4. Through the narrow and inelastic vessels .
- 5. Electronic structure of mns studied by resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering .