How to pronounce “elastic limit”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (physics) The level of stress at which a solid undergoes a greater change in strain than predicted by Hooke's law; often followed by necking and breaking.

Practice Nearby Words

hooke's law, yield strain, plasticity, yield strength, tenacity, elastoplasticity, elastoresistance, tensile strain, stress function, elasticity, bandlimit, engineering stress, tension, elastoresistivity, modulus of elasticity, pseudoelasticity, elastostatics, isostrain, hayashi limit, isostress, elastometry, bandlimiting, form factor, rigidity modulus, critical load, young's modulus, macrostrain, mullins effect, non-newtonian fluid, brittle fracture, newtonian fluid, elastodynamics, modulus of rupture, shear stress, strain energy, hyperstress, breakdown, engineering strain, eigenstress, dilatancy, superelasticity, microplasticity, residual stress, quantum limit, elastodiffusion, true stress, linestrength, tensile strength, elastohydrodynamics, ferroelasticity, bragg peak, rebound resilience, ultimate tensile strength, true strain, impact energy, viscoelasticity, stress, antistretching, elastic energy, freezeout, saturation, spinoidal, hyperdeformation, wolff's law, second moment of area, lawson criterion, nonconservation, betz limit, equicohesive temperature, elastocapillarity, hydrostatic equilibrium, plastic flow, thermoelasticity, dilatant, elastic collision, rigid body, melting point, magnetoelastics, aerothermoelasticity, strain, eddington limit, criticality, thermo-electro-magneto-elasticity, eigenstrain, threshold effect, superlubricity, breakdown voltage, deformation energy, solidus, unstable equilibrium, landauer limit, termination shock, shockley-queisser limit, electrostriction, overstability, correspondence principle, payne effect, superdeformation, surface tension, cricondenbar

Similar Sounds

elastically, elastic clause, elastica, elastic, domestic llama, city limit, scholastically, silk stocking, salicylate, solivagant