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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 ( E d {\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. For example, if the
price elasticity of the demand...
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Linear elasticity is a
mathematical model as to how
solid objects deform and
become internally stressed by
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...
- The
price elasticity of
supply (PES or Es) is a
measure used in
economics to show the responsiveness, or
elasticity, of the
quantity supplied of a good...
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degree to
which these factors change the
reaction rate is
described by the
elasticity coefficient. This
coefficient is
defined as follows: ε s i v = ( ∂ v ∂...
- In economics, the
cross (or cross-price)
elasticity of
demand (XED)
measures the
effect of
changes in the
price of one good on the
quantity demanded of...
-
types of
elasticity of
demand are
price elasticity of demand,
cross elasticity of demand,
income elasticity of demand, and
advertising elasticity of demand...
