Elasticity often refers to:
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Elasticity (physics)
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 that influence or force is removed. Solid objects will deform when adequate loads are ...
, continuum mechanics of bodies that deform reversibly under stress
Elasticity may also refer to:
Information technology
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Elasticity (data store), the flexibility of the data model and the clustering
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Elasticity (cloud computing), a defining feature of cloud computing
Economics
Elasticity (economics), a general term for a ratio of change. For more specific economic forms of elasticity, see:
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Beta (finance)
In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a measure of how an individual asset moves (on average) when the overall stock market increases or decreases. Thus, beta is a useful measure of the contribution of an individual a ...
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Cross elasticity of demand
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Elasticity of substitution
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Frisch elasticity of labor supply
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Income elasticity of demand
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 as the ratio of the percentage change in quantity demanded to the percentage change in incom ...
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Output elasticity In economics, output elasticity is the percentage change of output (GDP or production of a single firm) divided by the percentage change of an input. It is sometimes called ''partial output elasticity'' to clarify that it refers to the change of onl ...
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Price elasticity of demand
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Price elasticity of supply
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 or service to a change in its price.
The elasticity is represented in numerical form, and ...
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Yield elasticity of bond value
Mathematics
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Elasticity of a function In mathematics, the elasticity or point elasticity of a positive differentiable function ''f'' of a positive variable (positive input, positive output) at point ''a'' is defined as
:Ef(a) = \fracf'(a)
:=\lim_\frac\frac=\lim_\frac\frac=\lim_\frac\ap ...
, a mathematical definition of point elasticity
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Arc elasticity In mathematics and economics, the arc elasticity is the elasticity of one variable with respect to another between two given points. It is the ratio of the percentage change of one of the variables between the two points to the percentage change of ...
Other uses
* ''Elasticity'', a 2021 EP by
Serj Tankian
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Elasticity coefficient, a biochemical term used in metabolic control analysis
See also
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Elastic (disambiguation)
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