Sentences with word «inelasticity»

Inelasticity means that people will keep buying gasoline no matter how expensive it gets (up until a reasonable point) because we need it for our everyday life.

As more saturated fatty acids enter the cell, those islands grow in size, creating increasing inelasticity of the membrane and gradually damaging the entire cell.

Thus your analogy is misleading as it represents the «collisions» as elastic, whereas the heating effect is entirely dependent on inelasticity.

The supply inelasticity explains in large part why bitcoin is so volatile.

But supply / demand has another factor, «stickyness» or the more technical term, «inelasticity of demand.»

But the «crease factor» — caused by cotton's inelasticity — is central to its appeal.

Such an attitude derives from an inelasticity of mind which takes for its criterion a home - loving population living on highly durable soils and growing food for both subsistence and export.

The inelasticity of a callous compared to the surrounding skin means that one is more likely get things like «flappers», wherein a large flap of skin is ripped free from a palm or finger, or «jug rash» which is basically soreness caused by skin folding over on itself when climbing on large holds on overhanging routes.

If you beleive in inelasticity, means carbon taxes are not as effective a GW reduction means (or must be very draconian).

Given the inelasticity in some energy markets (gas prices double over the past 5 - 7 years and consumption is up) wouldn't much of the underlying market failure remain?