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Inelastic

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Adjective

1. inelastic

not elastic

Example Sentences:
'economists speak of an inelastic price structure'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Inelastic

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adjective
1. 
not elastic; not resilient
2. physics
(of collisions) involving an overall decrease in translational kinetic energy

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Inelastic

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adjective
1. 
not elastic; inflexible, rigid, unyielding, unadaptable, etc.
2.  Economics
not responding to changes in price
said of the demand for, or supply of, particular goods or services

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Inelastic

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adj.
1. Lacking elasticity; unyielding or unadaptable. See Synonyms at stiff.
2. Economics Of, relating to, or being a good for which changes in price have little effect on the quantity demanded or supplied: the inelastic demand for cigarettes.

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