Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

elasticity

/ɪ.læsˈtɪs.ɪ.ti/ noun

Forms elasticities

  1. noun (physics) The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded
  2. noun (economics) The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity. “If the sales of an item drop by 5% when the price increases by 10%, its price elasticity is −0.5.”
  3. noun (computing) A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
  4. noun (computing) A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources.
  5. noun (mathematics) The ratio of the relative change in a function's output with respect to the relative change in its input, for infinitesimal changes at a certain point.
  6. noun The quality of being elastic.
  7. noun Adaptability. “Her elasticity allowed her to recover quickly.”

Synonyms

point elasticity snap

Antonyms

inelasticity

Etymology

Cf. F. élasticité.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.
  2. noun Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “elasticity”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “elasticity” (best matches first).