On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Inelastic. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as dead or inflexible and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Inelastic meaning
- Lacking elasticity; inflexible, unyielding.
- Insensitive to changes in price.
- Resistant to swings during elections; predictable.
Synonyms of Inelastic
Using Inelastic
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking elasticity; inflexible, unyielding. | Insensitive to changes in price. | Resistant to swings during elections; predictable.
- Useful related words include: dead, nonresilient, springless, inflexible.
- In the example corpus, inelastic often appears in combinations such as: inelastic scattering, perfectly inelastic, inelastic collision.
Context around Inelastic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 6 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inelastic
- In this selection, "inelastic" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfectly, price, relatively, collision, scattering and demand stand out and add context to how "inelastic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a perfectly inelastic collision also and a perfectly inelastic collision has. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inelastic" sits close to words such as abominable, acolytes and acv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inelastic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Inelastic garments provide containment and reduction. (6 words)
A successful monopoly would have a relatively inelastic demand curve. (10 words)
If kinetic energy is lost, it is an inelastic collision. (10 words)
Because deadweight costs are related to the elasticity of supply and demand for a good, it follows that putting the highest tax rates on the goods for which there is most inelastic supply and demand will result in the least overall deadweight costs. (43 words)
Demand is also inelastic as there is a high demand for doctors and medical care is a necessity, so the NHS will pay higher wage rates to attract the profession. (30 words)
Inelastic scattering is useful for probing such excitations of matter, but not in determining the distribution of scatterers within the matter, which is the goal of X-ray crystallography. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
A “perfectly inelastic” collision (also called a "perfectly plastic" collision) is a limiting case of inelastic collision in which the two bodies stick together after impact.
Halma's strong margins are a reflection of its industry dynamics, with inelastic demand allowing the business to price aggressively.
So historically, telecom, and particularly telephone service has been shown to be incredibly price inelastic.
In the nearly thirty years I have known him, he came across as a man with inelastic tolerance and patient.
In times like this when the business is inelastic, it is crucial to keep stores open on all days and for extended hours.
In addition, the price point is attractive, especially for relatively price-inelastic business travelers.
A perfectly elastic collision has a coefficient of restitution of one; a perfectly inelastic collision has a coefficient of restitution of zero.
A successful monopoly would have a relatively inelastic demand curve.
Because deadweight costs are related to the elasticity of supply and demand for a good, it follows that putting the highest tax rates on the goods for which there is most inelastic supply and demand will result in the least overall deadweight costs.
Demand is also inelastic as there is a high demand for doctors and medical care is a necessity, so the NHS will pay higher wage rates to attract the profession.
Differential cross sections in inelastic scattering contain resonance peaks that indicate the creation of metastable states and contain information about their energy and lifetime.
Economic theory suggests the returns to land and other natural resources are economic rents that cannot be reduced in such a way because of their perfect inelastic supply.
Evidence for the existence of quarks comes from deep inelastic scattering : firing electrons at nuclei to determine the distribution of charge within nucleons (which are baryons).
Furthermore, the inelastic contribution has the same wavelengths dependency as the elastic part.
If kinetic energy is lost, it is an inelastic collision.
In a perfectly inelastic collision (such as a bug hitting a windshield), both bodies have the same motion afterwards.
Inelastic garments provide containment and reduction.
Inelastic scattering is useful for probing such excitations of matter, but not in determining the distribution of scatterers within the matter, which is the goal of X-ray crystallography.
In the case of a price elasticity of demand of zero (perfectly inelastic good), the demand part of supply and demand theories does not work.
In the short term the supply was, of course, also inelastic.
Common combinations with inelastic
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