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viscoelasticity
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viscoelasticity [¦vis·kȯ‚i‚las′tis·əd·ē]
(mechanics)
Property of a material which is viscous but which also exhibits certain elastic properties such as the ability to store energy of deformation, and in which the application of a stress gives rise to a strain that approaches its equilibrium value slowly.


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