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Definition: Inelasticity |
InelasticityNoun1. The lack of elasticity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inelasticity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Antonym: elasticity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inelasticity | Noun: want of elasticity, absence of elasticity; inelasticity. (softness), |
Softness | Noun: softness, pliableness. Adjective: flexibility; pliancy, pliability; sequacity, malleability; ductility, tractility; extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Inelasticity |
| English words defined with "inelasticity": Unelasticity. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The demand for processed food has been increasing because this commodity is characterized by a high inelasticity of demand, and because the Palestinian population is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inelasticity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inelasticity" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inelasticity price | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inelasticity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | moselastim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скованост (awkwardness, numbness, rigidity, starch, stiffness), нееластичност, липса на гъвкавост (inflexibility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 弹性 (inelastic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Starrheit (fixedness, glassiness, inflexibility, intransigence, numbness, paralysis, rigidity, stiffness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rugalmatlanság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mancanza di elasticit . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuspinney, neuheeyneydys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inelasticityay inflexibilidade (inexorable, inflexible, obduracy, rigidity, rigor, severity, stubbornness), sem flexibilidade, falta de elasticidade. (various references) неэластичность. (various references) neelastičnost. (various references) inflexibilidad (inflexibility, obduracy, rigidity, toughness). (various references) osmidighet, brist på elasticitet. (various references) katı olma, esnememe, esnek olmama. (various references) нееластичність. (various references) tính không co dân, tính không đ n h"i tính không mềm dẻo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "inelasticity" (pronounced 'In`e*las*tic"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: elasticity, latinities. | |
-3 letters: anilities, inelastic, initiates, intestacy, italicise, sciential, sectility, tensility. | |
-4 letters: alienist, anticity, canities, ciliates, clayiest, cyanites, entastic, initials, initiate, intitles, isatinic, latinity, lattices, lintiest, litanies, nictates, salicine, saliency, salinity, sanctity, scantily, secantly, senility, silicate, stylitic, syenitic, tenacity, tetanics. | |
-5 letters: acetins, acetyls, anility, anticly, cantles, catlins, catties, cattily, centals, ciliate, cineast, clients, cyanite. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-i-l-n-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: analyticities. | |
+3 letters: crystallinities. | |
+4 letters: incontestability. | |
+5 letters: deterministically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 65 6C 61 73 74 69 63 69 74 79 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. . .-.. .- ... - .. -.-. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100101 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n e l a s t i c i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0065 006C 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438071786785867569758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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