English Explanatory Dictionary

elastance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
  2. The inverse of compliance.
  3. A measurement of the tendency of the lung, urinary bladder, gallbladder or other cavity to recoil inwards.

Word forms

elastance elastances

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.

Antonyms

compliance
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