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elastance

elas·tance

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* From elastic + -ance. * (physics): Coined by Oliver Heaviside. There is a force-voltage electromechanical analogy in which capacitance corresponds to the inverse of a spring constant; the smaller the spring constant, the more “elastic” (yielding, flexible) the spring is.

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