0 not changing much, or not allowing much change:
For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
The demand for services such as water, gas, and electricity is relatively inelastic.
1 relating to a situation in which the amount of a product sold or supplied changes very little in relation to the product's price:
This does not produce any distortion in the choice of labor, since male labor supply is inelastic.
In such a partially ionized plasma, elastic and inelastic process takes place simultaneously.
We have calculated separately the probability of exciting plasmons and electron-hole pairs in an inelastic electron scattering event assisted by multiphoton processes.
The projectile only changes its trajectory if an elastic collision takes place, if not the projectile continues straight losing its energy due to inelastic stopping.
This formalism provides a self-consistent description of the inelastic processes connecting par ticle-solid- laser interactions.
For inelastic, permanent strain, it is usually expressed as a relation between stress and strain rate.
This energy domain allows for the investigation of inelastic collisions leading to the impact ionization.
The instability is expected to saturate rapidly by the nonlinear damping from inelastic collisions, which depend strongly on the electron temperature.
