elasticity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The 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.

2. 2
   noun

   Adaptability.

   Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.

3. 3
   noun

   the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed

4. 4
   noun

   The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded

5. 5
   noun

   A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.

6. 6
   noun

   A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.

7. 7
   noun

   The 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.

8. 8
   noun

   The quality of being elastic.

Etymology

From elastic + -ity.