elastance
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English
Etymology
- From elastic + -ance.
- (physics): Coined by Oliver Heaviside. There is a force–voltage electromechanical analogy in which capacitance corresponds to the inverse of a spring constant; the smaller the spring constant, the more “elastic” (yielding, flexible) the spring is.
Noun
elastance (countable and uncountable, plural elastances)
- (physics) An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
- (mechanics) The inverse of compliance.
- (medicine) A measurement of the tendency of the lung, urinary bladder, gallbladder or other cavity to recoil inwards.
- Antonym: compliance
Translations
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Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “elastance”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.