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elasticity

/ih-la-stis-i-tee, ee-la-stis-/US // ɪ læˈstɪs ɪ ti, ˌi læˈstɪs- //UK // (ɪlæˈstɪsɪtɪ, ˌiːlæ-) //

弹性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being elastic.
    • : flexibility; resilience; adaptability: a statement with a great elasticity of meaning.
    • : ability to resist or overcome depression; buoyancy.
    • : Physics. the property of a substance that enables it to change its length, volume, or shape in direct response to a force effecting such a change and to recover its original form upon the removal of the force.

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Examples

  • The pop comes from great body elasticity in the tendons and ligaments, as well as from full body tension and muscular coordination.

  • Unless fast food makes up a large portion of your meals every week, you don’t need to make radical changes in your diet to improve the elasticity of your skin.

  • Curry just spent a whole season showing his prime has elasticity, but here comes a challenger who might address him as “Sir” before talking trash.

  • Chemicals, particularly phthalates — components that create the elasticity found in many toys, detergents, cosmetics and food packaging — are contributing to our progenitive woes.

  • Still, the smooth outer is durable without sacrificing any elasticity.

  • (1.2.35–38) This wistfully fluid elasticity of self is a great challenge for an actor.

  • That extreme elasticity made for some awkward moments in Tampa.

  • But unlike hard tape, its site says, Kinesio is designed to mimic a “texture and elasticity very close to living human tissue.”

  • Over the next six months, I am told, I can look forward to overall improvement in volume, skin tone, and elasticity.

  • Each week, Harvard professors team up with chefs like Dufresne to teach such science principles as elasticity through food.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • Passing, now, to the other side of elasticity—i.e., contractility—can we say as much?

  • There are two forms of elasticity, one of quantity and the other of quality, both provided for in the act.

  • Thus the increase of temperature that augments the elasticity of a fluid confined, would expand it in the same degree.

  • One other natural law which affects the running of watches is this: Variations in temperature affect the elasticity of metals.