Inelastic [adjective]
Definition of Inelastic:
unflexible
Sentence/Example of Inelastic:
From the point of view of cover, the gold certificate is completely inelastic.
It was inelastic, incompetent to adapt itself to changing circumstances.
Catching sight of his Captain on the platform, the Doctor bent his steps thither, and they were slow and inelastic.
At the same moment we heard the fall 220 of something heavy and inelastic in the upper story.
It is not permitted to discriminate; it can neither relax nor repress; it is absolutely inelastic.
The assessment becomes inelastic and approximates to a fixed sum.
Some voices are expressive and carry emotion easily, while others are hard and inelastic.
A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
Or there may be an inelastic collision, when the photon hits an atom and knocks out an electron—the old photoelectric effect.
He paced the floor, his mind in its chaotic desperation, numb and inelastic.