inelastic
[adjective]
Synonyms: stiff, immalleable, impliable, incompliant, inflexible, rigid, unbending, unflexible, unyielding

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Antonyms: elastic

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inelastic adjective. [ɪnɪ'lastɪk] M18.
[from IN-³ + ELASTIC adjective.]
1. Not elastic or resilient, either rigid or plastic. M18.
b. Physics. Of a collision or scattering (esp. of subatomic particles): involving a reduction in total translational kinetic energy of the bodies or particles colliding. M19.
2. fig. Not adaptable; inflexible, unyielding. M19.
Spectator The House of Lords show not firmness..but inelastic obstinacy and obstructiveness.
■ G. S. Fraser Jonson with his strong..but inelastic mind would shy away from Donne's agility in paradox.
b. Economics. Of demand or supply: unresponsive to, or varying less than in proportion to, changes in price. L19.
Lancet Demand for cigarettes is inelastic...If prices rise by 1% demand falls, but by..less than 1%.

■ inelastically adverb M20.

■ inelasticity [,ɪnɪla'stɪsɪti] noun the quality or condition of being inelastic; an instance of this: E19.

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