elasticity vs tenacity

elasticity

noun
  • The quality of being elastic. 

  • The sensitivity of changes in a quantity with respect to changes in another quantity. 

  • A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities. 

  • 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. 

  • The property by virtue of which a material deformed under load can regain its original dimensions when unloaded 

  • A system's ability to adapt to changes in workload by automatically provisioning and de-provisioning resources. 

  • Adaptability. 

tenacity

noun
  • The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity. 

  • The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture. 

  • The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. 

  • The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness. 

  • The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness. 

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