Elasticity vs. Plasticity — What's the Difference?

The condition or property of being elastic; flexibility.

Capable of being shaped or formed

The property of returning to an initial form or state following deformation.

Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling

The degree to which this property is exhibited.

Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed

A measure of how changes in price affect supply or demand for a given good, equal to the percentage of change in supply or demand divided by the percentage of the price change.

Giving form or shape to a substance

(physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded

Easily influenced; impressionable

(economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity.

Made of a plastic or plastics

(computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.

(Physics) Capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation.

(computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.

Capable of building tissue; formative.

(mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.

Able to change and adapt, especially by acquiring alternative pathways for sensory perception or motor skills. Used of the central nervous system.

The quality of being elastic.

Marked by artificiality or superficiality

Adaptability.

(Informal) Of or obtained by means of credit cards

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; resilience; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.

Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers.

Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork; - usually referred to as resilience[3].

(Informal) A credit card or credit cards

The tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed;

The quality or state of being plastic.

(physics) the property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value)

The quality or state of being plastic.

Plastic force.

The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped under pressure without breaking