Term: bulk modulus: the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume
Candidate hypernym: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body → 1
Candidate hypernym: religious school: a school run by a religious body → 0
Candidate hypernym: lace fern: small tufted fern of northwestern America → 0
Candidate hypernym: hooke's law: (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced → 0
Candidate hypernym: east india company: an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny → 0
Candidate hypernym: cinnabar: a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury → 0
Candidate hypernym: dodecagon: a twelve-sided polygon → 0
Candidate hypernym: soup-strainer: slang for a mustache → 0
Candidate hypernym: cyclosporeae: in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales → 0
Candidate hypernym: longleaf pine: large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridged; an important timber tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: aspalathus: genus of South African heathlike shrubs → 0