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inelastic

 [in″e-las´tik]
lacking elasticity.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
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where [P.sub.de] and [P.sub.di] denote the elastic and inelastic damage-caused load reductions, respectively (similar to the elastic and inelastic damage-caused stress reduction, respectively in literature [24, 25]); [f.sub.de] and [f.sub.di] denote the elastic and inelastic damage-caused midspan deflections, respectively; [P.sub.0] denotes the idealized load without damage in the specimen (similar to the effective stress [24, 25]); f denotes the total midspan deflection.
At this point it should be stressed that the above elements present also important inelastic cross section.
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The literatures on oil demand in the Middle East countries have generally observed that oil demand is income elastic and price inelastic for their study period.
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In a formal commentary submitted on July 27, 2015 regarding federal mandates for the use of biofuels, ACI said the proposed volumes for the coming years "would continue to divert large quantities of a finite inelastic supply of animal fats to the biofuels market, thereby critically disadvantaging the domestic oleochemical industry.
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