Term: bulk modulus: the ratio of the change in pressure acting on a volume to the fractional change in volume
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: religious school: a school run by a religious body
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: lace fern: small tufted fern of northwestern America
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: hooke's law: (physics) the principle that (within the elastic limit) the stress applied to a solid is proportional to the strain produced
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: 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
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: cinnabar: a heavy reddish mineral consisting of mercuric sulfide; the chief source of mercury
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: dodecagon: a twelve-sided polygon
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: soup-strainer: slang for a mustache
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: cyclosporeae: in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: 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
Broader: coefficient of elasticity: (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body | Unrelated: aspalathus: genus of South African heathlike shrubs