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elastic modulus

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physical property that measures the stiffness of an elastic material

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Encyclopedic overview

An elastic modulus is a quantity that describes an object's or substance's resistance to being deformed elastically (i.e., non-permanently) when a stress is applied to it.

Definition

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “elastic modulus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.