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Meanings of inelastic in English

Spanish
no elástico

Not elastic.

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        Usage of inelastic in English
        1
        In France, again, the objects of the attack were inelastic and unyielding.
        Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2)
        2
        For them is the inelastic, or but slightly elastic, movement of things.
        Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays
        3
        A Free Trader did not really dare to have an inelastic contract.
        Plague Ship
        4
        He felt heavy and inelastic,-averseto himself, but still more to society.
        Idolatry: A Romance
        5
        Moving great weights through small spaces produces a slow, inelastic, inflexible man.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
        6
        He paced the floor, his mind in its chaotic desperation, numb and inelastic.
        Kenny
        7
        Gasoline demand is inelastic, so rising prices could eventually curtail demand.
        Reuters
        8
        His eye was dull, his shoulders drooped, his gait was inelastic.
        The Blazed Trail
        9
        It is the absolute inelastic demand, Wang said an IPO news conference this month.
        Reuters
        10
        The dangers of the existing inelastic arrangement were illustrated in the panic of 1907.
        The United States Since the Civil War
        11
        But for many Americans, the demand for energy is inelastic.
        Reuters
        12
        The vibranium would absorb the kinetic energy of the collision, rendering it totally inelastic.
        Wired
        13
        These include inelastic tunneling in molecular devices, photochemistry on conducting surfaces, and electron-molecule scattering.
        Pubmed
        14
        Such inelastic lessons, given time to soak in, were sobering.
        Dust
        15
        Below resonance, the observed two-body inelastic decay can arise from molecule-atom and molecule-molecule collisions.
        Pubmed
        16
        Some voices are expressive and carry emotion easily, while others are hard and inelastic.
        Spirit and Music
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        Inelastic through the time
        Inelastic across language varieties
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