- Look up
elasticity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Elasticity often refers to:
Elasticity (physics),
continuum mechanics of
bodies that
deform reversibly...
- A good's
price elasticity of
demand (Ed{\displaystyle E_{d}}, PED) is a
measure of how
sensitive the
quantity demanded is to its price. When the price...
- In
physics and
materials science,
elasticity is the
ability of a body to
resist a
distorting influence and to
return to its
original size and
shape when...
- In economics,
elasticity measures the
responsiveness of one
economic variable to a
change in another. If the
price elasticity of the
demand of something...
- In economics, the
cross (or cross-price)
elasticity of
demand measures the
effect of
changes in the
price of one good on the
quantity demanded of another...
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Linear elasticity is a
mathematical model of how
solid objects deform and
become internally stressed due to
prescribed loading conditions. It is a simplification...
- In economics, the
income elasticity of
demand (****) is the
responsivenesses of the
quantity demanded for a good to a
change in
consumer income. It is measured...
-
constant elasticity function, is a
function that
exhibits a
constant elasticity, i.e. has a
constant elasticity coefficient. The
elasticity is the ratio...
-
types of
elasticity of
demand are
price elasticity of demand,
cross elasticity of demand,
income elasticity of demand, and
advertising elasticity of demand...
- An
elastic modulus (also
known as
modulus of
elasticity) is the unit of
measurement of an object's or substance's
resistance to
being deformed elastically...
