ELASTICITY
/ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
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Scrabble
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WWF
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Definition
/ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
noun
- The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
- The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.“If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is -0.5.”
- A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
- 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.
Source: Wiktionary
