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The ability of a material to stretch and then return to its original shape, like a rubber band. In economics, 'elasticity' also describes how much one thing, like the amount people buy, changes when something else, like price, changes - if a small price change causes a big change in sales, the demand has high elasticity.
彈性
組成elastic + -ity (the quality of) - the quality of being elastic.
同家族的字
- elasticthe root word this comes from
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
elasticitynoun/ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
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economicssciencesThe 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.
- Given elasticity of demand, there is a strong argument that filling the millions of empty seats through lower fares could actually increase revenue.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
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mathematicssciencesThe 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.
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The quality of being elastic.
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Adaptability.
- Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.
- "I'll have a try at it, Gladys, if you will only give me an idea what would please you." She laughed at the elasticity of my character.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。