0 not changing much, or not allowing much change: --
The demand for services such as water, gas, and electricity is relatively inelastic.
For skilled occupations the supply of labour is typically fairly inelastic, because few workers are capable of doing the work.
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: --
Consumers and wage laborers may lose where food supply is inelastic and programs reduce labor demand.
The inelastic nature of the demand signifies that visitation rates are not very responsive to cost incurred to avail of these services.
Impacts at touchdown are assumed to be fully inelastic, and no sliding between foot and ground occurs.
For example, measuring flexible-price labor supply by the total labor force involves assuming inelastic labor supply.
We can proceed with a discussion if we know the frequencies i and s associated with the inelastic and superinelastic interactions.
The demand for redistribution is fairly inelastic across industrialized democracies.
In the clusters, the inner ionization is produced by inelastic electron-ion collisions.
The instability is expected to saturate rapidly by the nonlinear damping from inelastic collisions, which depend strongly on the electron temperature.
