elastic modulus

Questions about elastic modulus

What does elastic modulus mean?

elastic modulus means "(physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body".

What is another word for elastic modulus?

Close synonyms include coefficient of elasticity, modulus of elasticity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elastic modulus a common word?

elastic modulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.