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non-eˈlastic, a.
[non- 3.]
Not elastic.
1759Smeaton in Phil. Trans. LI. 130 Non-elastic bodies, when acting by their impulse or collision, communicate only a part of their original power. 1798Hutton Course Math. (1828) II. 238 [A fluid] is non-elastic, when it is not compressible or expansible, as water. 1883Day Indian Fish 44 (Intern. Fish. Exhib.), Fixed engines constructed of non-elastic substances are still more destructive to fish than are such as are made of net.
So non-elaˈsticity, inelasticity.
1848Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. ii. ii. 156 The non-elasticity of the flower-stalk. |