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elastance

elastance noun: an electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.

Noun

elastance (countable and uncountable, plural elastances)

  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.
    Antonyms:
    compliance

elastance meaning in Tamil

elastance in Tamil

மீளுறும் பண்பு

Antonyms of elastance

Forms of elastance

pluralelastances

Origin of elastance

* 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.

Questions about elastance

What does elastance mean?
Elastance means an electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
What is elastance in Tamil?
Elastance in Tamil is மீளுறும் பண்பு. See Elastance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is elastance?
Elastance is a noun.
What is the plural of elastance?
The plural of elastance is elastances.

Words near elastance in the dictionary

  1. elasmotheriines
  2. elassomatid
  3. elassomatids
  4. elassomatiform
  5. elassomatiforms
  6. elastance
  7. elastances
  8. elastane
  9. elastase
  10. elastases
  11. elasthane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elastance (page history and authors); elastance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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