Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or exhibiting no elasticity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not elastic; without the property of elasticity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not having elasticity; not able to be stretched reversibly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
elastic ; not able tostretch .
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Examples
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Batters often contain eggs, and the egg proteins also contribute a nonelastic solidity when they coagulate in the cooking heat.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Batters often contain eggs, and the egg proteins also contribute a nonelastic solidity when they coagulate in the cooking heat.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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A nonelastic rubber much in demand before the advent of plastics, balata had been used primarily for covering underwater cables.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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A nonelastic rubber much in demand before the advent of plastics, balata had been used primarily for covering underwater cables.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The exact position of the bucket is indicated or shown on a weighted or gauged scale by a clean thread and a nonelastic string guided through a pulley and suspended by a weight at the string end.
9.1 Manual winch 1993
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The diseased testicle is enlarged, firm, nonelastic, and comparatively insensible.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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If we wish to give nonelastic bodies a tone, it will be necessary to make them continue their sound, by repeating our blows quickly upon them.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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